Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INNOCENT EYE, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. Robert Flaherty is described in this admirable biography as the archetype of the artist-adventurer: a steel-hewed Irishman who spent the first half of his life exploring the Arctic, a Blake-like visionary who spent the second half inventing the documentary film and producing its early masterworks-Nanook of the North, Moana, Louisiana Story...
...second day, Couve added a "calendar" of reform: the Six must accept Couve's ten commandments by Jan. 31. The E.E.C. Commission must be fused with the related European Atomic Energy and Goal and Steel Community commissions in a new 14-member body by April 1-and Hallstein was not one of the 14 the French had in mind. Couve told the ministers that they had until Feb. 1 to agree to let France retain its veto over their joint decisions, even though, under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, a qualified majority vote went into effect...
...FLETCHER BENTON, 34, sees mobile art as the way of the future. "Kineticists are space-age artists," says the San Franciscan, and points to the small, spiky steel ball called Explorer I, the U.S.'s first orbital satellite, as an example of esthetic motion. "There's no reason to believe a living room could not be a kinetic experience," he says. "On a dark, rainy day, the walls would turn bright and cheery. We're the pioneers, but think of the artists growing up today. They will know about computers, programming and electronics. Think of what they...
Reaching gracefully into the Los Angeles skyline, handsome in its vertically fluted steel and blue-grey enamel over coating, the structure looked like a new office building. Yet it contained not a single office - or, indeed, any room of any sort. The structure was simply a shell, set up for the specific purpose of shielding from sight and insulating from sound a drilling rig on Pico Boulevard...
After the explosion, the CEA had hoped that work in the hall would resume as early as November. But more time was needed. Cummings explained, to design and install a steel roof on the hall. The original concrete roof was lifted up by the force of the explosion and shattered on the way down on its own girders...