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...nuts and bolts to hold it together and a four-ton concrete foundation. At present, it is the largest Calder in the Western Hemisphere. But not for long. The silver-haired tinker is already at work on a 65-ft.-high by 94-ft-wide stabile in unpainted stainless steel, to be set on an island in the St. Lawrence in time for the 1967 Montreal World's Fair. Its name...
...organized the first New World preaching societies of Methodism, which then was merely a dissident Anglican sect. Last week more than 2,300 modern Methodists, including 40 bishops, were on hand in Baltimore to celebrate their church's entry into its third century. Confidently, the delegates buried a stainless-steel time capsule in Mount Olivet Cemetery, to be opened by tricentennial-celebrating Methodists...
...Steel has just introduced a spiral nail which not only fastens lumber more securely but provides up to 29% more nails per pound than the smooth-shank variety. And Crucible Steel last week announced that it will build the world's first plant, at Midland, Pa., to make stainless steel in a continuous liquid process from chrome ore in a blast furnace to a slab-casting machine...
...imaginative research. For example, Burlington Industries, the largest of them all (1965 sales: $1.3 billion), sells thermal-lined draperies with a thin layer of acrylic that effectively absorbs cold drafts that sift in through window frames. Possible products now undergoing final tests in Burlington labs: a carpet woven with stainless steel filaments that will eliminate static electricity; a new drapery lining that by chemical action can control the amount of light filtering through it, with the result that more light will be allowed to enter a room on dark days...
...clear, light material-like glass buildings. Transforming the cultural world into the world of the laboratory, it brings art nearer to science." For her just-opened show in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, Chryssa made a 10-ft.-sq. chamber, analyzing the letter A in neon and stainless steel through which people can walk. It is titled The Gates to Times Square, and is an actual journey through a symbol of city lights and mass communication...