Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with dried cow dung, 400 Hindu pundits and priests have gathered." Dried cow dung- indeed. A thin solution of cow dung and water is patted on the ground to produce a hard greyish surface which is then artistically decorated with various colored pigments. The result is a sweet-smelling, smooth layer that holds up under normal traffic for many days. Since the worshipers remove their sandals, the floor of the enclosure is far cleaner than the floor of the average department store one hour after opening...
Mastermind of the takeover attempt is smooth-talking I.C.I. Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers, 57, rated by some as Britain's ablest executive. Defeat would spell a sorry setback for ambitious Chambers, but he obviously counts on winning...
...years ago, his junior partner, another ex-carpenter named LaVergne Jacobson, now 48, steered Webb into real estate investment. Jacobson had a convincing argument: such investment would provide a fairly steady income to help smooth the peaks and valleys of the Volatile construction market. Since then, Webb Corp. has been trading contractor fees for interests in the projects it builds. For example, instead of collecting a $100,000 construction fee for the Phoenix shopping center, Webb got an equity share that brought in $80,000 annually for seven years, later was sold for $1,000,000. Enterprising Del Webb figures...
...cherished Grand Prix du Disque, I Musici has made 34 records, sold a phenomenal 300,000 copies. Its best seller: Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In its pursuit of perfection, the group takes four full days to record a 4O-min. LP. The result is a luxurious, butter-smooth string tone, an artful blending of the orchestra's twelve instruments (six violins, two cellos, two violas, harpsichord, bass), a dynamic control that is the envy of other instrumentalists. Also to be envied: the fact that I Musici gets along harmoniously without a conductor...
...livings for parish priests in rural England, or Leopold Harris, who was so great an expert on fraud that his prison cell became an office where he scrutinized documents for the British authorities. Or there is the Portuguese Bank Note Case of the 1920s, in which a band of smooth, velvety swindlers talked the Bank of Portugal's official printers-a posh British firm-into engraving 100 million escudos, next got permission from the Portuguese government to found a bank in Angola, where they put their escudos into circulation...