Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teau Allière near Paris, sits like a palace in a park of landscaped terraces, ornamental walks, stately trees, lawns, fountains, plus two teahouses, three bronze statues, and a profusion of ornate limestone flower pots, cornucopias and wrestling cupids. No commercial vehicle ever scuffed the smooth gravel of its front driveway in the old days; and it took so much coal to animate the giant boilers that a special narrow-gauge underground railroad, complete with a turntable in the subbasement, was constructed to keep the hungry furnaces fed. The Berwind family, who built it, was in the coal business...
Caroline Cross (Director) has gathered the cream of local acting talent into one smooth and professional cast, put them in the three-quarter round of an extremely serviceable setting (designed by Yoshiaku Shimizu), and given them some of the world's wittiest lines to speak. Quite clearly, it was a great night for Harvard drama...
...first time in U.S. man-in-space operations, no technical difficulties marred the countdown. "It wasn't just smooth," said Project Mercury Operations Director Walter Williams. "It was perfect." Waiting inside his Aurora 7 capsule, Carpenter had no problems. With eleven minutes to go, a morning ground haze at Cape Canaveral caused a 45-minute delay. Then the sun burst through, and at 7:45 E.S.T. the huge Atlas missile blazed into...
...member states. Coming from nonaligned Brazil, Dr. Candau began work at WHO with an innate advantage over his predecessor (Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm): the Soviet Union and its satellites, which had walked out of WHO in 1949 for political reasons, accepted his neutrality and returned. As smooth in manner and speech as in his grooming, Dr. Candau refuses to talk politics, now finds that nobody expects him to. A thoroughly practical man, he measures his success by the money he wheedles out of the U.N. to continue his work. Last week, at the Geneva Assembly, his budget was boosted from...
...tightly composed close-up photograph. But gradually Sheeler came to believe that "a picture could have incorporated in it the structural design implied in abstraction and have a wholly realistic manner." Often picking for his subjects simple, linear masses-barns, bridges, machines-Sheeler drafted knife-sharp contours and smooth surfaces, sometimes with bright and unrealistic colors...