Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oceanic End. Meanwhile, the debate over Viet Nam, though hardly running out of steam, seemed to be running out of ideas. Last week General Lauris Norstad, former NATO commander who now runs the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., had a proposal for handling the myriad end-the-war proposals. "It is not my purpose to play the game of 'if I were President,' " Norstad told a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce audience, "or to present a specific plan. The ideas are there, they have been presented. I urge that they be molded into a clear, positive, direct plan...
...similar branching out, General Waterworks, which provides water, sewer service and steam heat through 89 subsidiaries in 17 states, lifted its revenues ninefold to $249 million and increased profits sevenfold to $16.7 million. Today the company also makes irrigation equipment, computer and aircraft parts, clay and concrete pipe, water heaters, industrial valves and refrigeration machinery; it produces milk products, sells insurance, answers telephones for 68,000 subscribers...
...most other subjects, Perry had the grimly methodical soul of a New England reformer. He improved lighthouses. He energetically earned the title, "Father of the Steam Navy." He was correct even about the future: he prophesied that the Pacific would become America's sea of destiny, and he warned that one day there would be a showdown with Russia. But his correctness -his insufferable common sense-fails to compel the imagination...
...general intonation tended to get worse as a piece progressed, and I found in myself the unusual desire that the orchestra retune. In all three works, the orchestra tended to run out of steam in the second or third movement. Each piece started out very much in control, full of life and interpretive detail, and then gradually slithered into slippiness and insecurity...
With no assist from the psychedelic sector, the Pentagon and environs last week looked nightmarish indeed. Workers had to use steam to scrub the steps and walls leading to the entrance of the Mall-and even that failed to erase the graffiti that demonstrators had smeared on with ineradicable black plastic paint. Some of the protesters-who numbered 30,000 to 35,000 according to a Naval Air Intelligence count-left more personal souvenirs on the Mall. "You should see what we found out there," said one worker. "Nothing but bras and panties. You never saw so many." The only...