Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GERALD GLADSTONE-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. A young Canadian sculptor sees the universe as rigid and definite in shape, favors the cone as a fundamental form. His welded-steel Galaxies, laced with a network of rods and discs, make lively geometric studies of space and time. Through...
GEORGE SPAVENTA-Poindexter, 21 West 56th. New York Sculptor Spaventa's figures are malformed blobs of metal that look as if they were still taking shape-or beginning to melt. But his elongated, bulbous nudes are balanced firmly on broad bases, seem to grow naturally out of their own bulky substance. More than 60 small bronzes, also some drawings. Through...
...General Atomics Division demonstrated how the principle works in practice. Magneform - a tool little larger than a home washing machine and using no more current than an electric range - has no moving parts at all. Its essential part is a coil of heavy wire that can take var ious shapes, including a cylinder, a doughnut or a flat disk. When a massive electric current from a capacitor is shot suddenly through a coil, it creates an intense magnetic field in the space around it. If a piece of metal is near by, the magnetism starts currents flowing in the metal...
...porcelain insulators for outdoor wiring; the metal bands around artillery shells are being fitted quickly without any fuss. The auto industry is using Magneform to produce ball-joint and seal assemblies for front suspensions. Magne-form's principal advantage over welding, pressing or stamping is its ability to shape metals without the rough handling that such operations ordinarily require. Automated assembly-line operation can be managed easily, and Magneform men are already looking toward the day when most subsidiary parts of an auto engine-carburetors, fuel pumps, etc.-are shaped and stuck together by Magneform...
...sales began to build up, Hiraki rounded up 20 baseball players from high schools and colleges and put together Riccar's first baseball team. It won the Tokyo area championship in its first season, and kept Riccar in the ball game. "Investors thought we must be in good shape," says Hiraki, "since we could field a pretty good team." The price of Riccar's stock climbed back to a respectable level, and his employees' spirits rose. Says Hiraki: "The day we became champions we banzaied ourselves hoarse...