Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reform of Public Administration, headed by Luigi Preti, known as "Luigi XIV" because the department has had 13 previous heads in 17 years. Preti admits he has not had much luck. "Whoever tries to reform finds himself up against a rubber wall," he sighs. "If it were a steel wall, you could take a cannon and knock it down. But the rubber wall-you hit it with your fist, then turn away, and the wall has returned to where...
...acoustically sealed closets, and all air ducts are lined with Fiberglas or board. Dishwashers and disposals are housed in rubber and glass-wool casings to cushion vibrations. Even the underbellies of sinks are swathed in felt to soften the clatter of silver and glassware clanging against the stainless steel...
...ducted 7-ft. fans that the X-22A uses as props are a futuristic blend of modern metallurgy and plastic engineering-fiber-glass blades with steel cores and nickel edges. The power behind those fans is a Rube Goldberg blend of engineering-four turbojet engines feeding a total of ten different gearboxes. The barrel-like ducts, along with their -big props, can be rotated by separate hydraulic motors. With the ducts horizontal and the props pointing forward, the X-22A should be capable of more than 300 m.p.h. in level flight; with ducts rotated to a vertical position, the ship...
...simultaneously retiring the older Vulcania and Saturnia, the line reduced from 15 years to seven years the average age of its fleet on the competitive "Southern Atlantic" route, increased its capacity by 30%. Equally important, the twins created work for the Genoa and Trieste shipyards and the Italsider steel complex-all of which are owned by the Italian Line's parent, the IRI monopoly that is Italy's biggest enterprise...
Mirage opens with a skyline view of Manhattan at dusk, and Director Edward Dmytryk quickly and Hitchcockily establishes the city's menacing mood. One glittering spire of steel and glass, suddenly goes dark. Inside the building, corridors teem with silhouetted confusion- elevators stall, office parties begin, and the leader of a world-famous peace foundation plummets 27 floors to his death. Hero Gregory Peck, looking vaguely troubled, chooses to walk down. En route he meets an enigmatic beauty (Diane Baker) who seems to know him intimately, though he has never seen her before...