Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dark and forbidding, the rocky pinnacle rises 9,750 ft. out of the Italian Dolomites, and the last 1,800 ft. of its north wall is as sheer and smooth as a Manhattan skyscraper. An Italian team first scaled Cima Grande di Lavaredo's north wall in 1933. and the rock is stitched with hundreds of pitons, or spikes, left behind by alpinists following the winding "staircase" trail to the summit. But not until this month did anyone tackle Cima Grande's north wall by the "elevator route"-straight up. Even in summer, that route was so perilous...
Rosa can also "feel"' colors. White, she says, is smooth; red is coarse-grained; and blue is wavy. Again determined to rule out a reaction to textures, the neurologists tested her with colored light. They shone a red light on a light green book, making it look blue. Rosa called it blue. When the red light was switched off, and the green looked green again, the blindfolded Rosa expressed astonishment that the book could change color...
...cruising speed of 70 m.p.h., a maximum speed of 86 m.p.h., a range of 200 miles and an endurance of three hours in the air. Special effects include a 360° visibility, a tinted canopy to protect against sun glare, and air-oil shock-absorbing landing skids that "smooth out" the roughest terrain. It is also economical-13? a mile by Hughes's estimate. With 53 dealers already signed up and expectations of many more, Hughes has stepped up production to one copter a day, confident the idea will soon catch...
...syndicate has the last laugh in this yak derby, but the customers get most of the others. Written by Jack Rose and directed by Daniel Mann, Action is not the merriest oatsmobile that ever came down the track, but Dean and Lana make a surprisingly smooth entry; Paul Ford is hilarious as a birdbrained, spaniel-eyed, llama-lipped pony player; and Walter Matthau has his moments as the big hairball who runs the syndicate-among them the deathless moment when, with a casual flick of his manicured fingers, he announces superbly: "Give dis genulman eighteen tousan' dolluhs fum petty...
...specially crafted cobbler's bench, the ways of the early Americans are more often exploited than understood. Eric Sloane understands them. He says that when he closes his hand around the handle of an old wooden tool, he can all but feel "the very hand that wore it smooth." He succeeds in handing the tool to his reader...