Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody in the 8th Wing thinks he hung the moon," says one of Olds's aviators. "We'd follow him anywhere." To make sure they do, Olds keeps in top shape, plays squash daily on a court he built himself at Ubon. Well aware that his reaction time is bound to slow with age, Olds practices his flying skills incessantly, and 57 raids over the flak-and-fighter-fraught North have only sharpened them. "Younger guys have to think before they start a maneuver," he says. "With me, it's instinct...
...ever higher, until the world record is now 17 ft. 61 in. - more than a foot and a half above Hamilton's "ultimate" limit. The foot ball has been narrowed and shortened twice since 1930 to make it easier to hold and throw; and each alteration in its shape has contributed to the wide-open passing game of today's pros. In baseball, oversized fielder's gloves with all-but-magnetic pockets have had a noticeably negative effect on batting averages. The lively "rabbit ball" has almost everyone swinging for the fences, and the modern game...
...wrote copy for Macy's, McCann-Erickson and Doyle Dane Bernbach before joining Jack Tinker & Partners in 1964. There, she and her present partners, Richard Rich, 37, and Stewart Greene, 39, ran some notable successes up the flagpole. They were responsible for the whimsical ads ("No matter what shape your stomach's in . . .") that boosted Alka-Seltzer sales by $13.3 million. When Braniff International President Harding Lawrence came to Tinker in 1965, Wells thought up the idea of painting Braniff's jets in pastel hues-and persuaded Lawrence to go along. Rich and Greene also...
Slow Fission. Even if the shock wave fails to set off the warhead's conventional explosive, it can damage electronic components or cause sufficient changes in the critical shape of internal cavities within the warhead to prevent a nuclear explosion. In addition, the heating of the ICBM's exterior may so damage its heat shield that the missile would burn up upon entering the atmosphere...
...never build things unless there is some reason for them," says Gibberd. The new cathedral's shape derived from the emphasis on the high altar, visible to the congregation from all sides. This dictated a cathedral-in-the-round, with 2,000 worshipers seated no more than 80 feet from the altar. He surrounded his circular nave with 16 individually shaped satellite chapels and anterooms, each set off from the next by 1-in.-thick blue stained-glass panels, extended a piazza to roof over an English Wrenaissance crypt built in the 1930s, and made the lower level...