Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cast in Steel. Everyone knows that Dan'l Boone could shoot the eyes out of a potato at 500 paces. But when Montana's Lones Wigger Jr., 27, won two medals in riflery at Tokyo (one gold, one silver), it came as a distinct shock to many U.S. sports fans who never gave a thought to the U.S. shooting team. Americans used to be big on bicycle racing-but that was long ago, before the two-car family. If the settlers hadn't tried to kill off all the Indians, the U.S. might have done better...
Died. Herman Doehler, 92, inventor of modern die-casting, who in 1906 patented a process for injecting molten metal under pressure between the halves of a steel die that proved quicker and more precise than hand-poured sand castings, thus paving the way for mass production of all manner of products and making Doehler Die Casting Co. (later Doehler-Jarvis) the biggest in the field; of uremia; in Manhattan...
...greater interest in modernizing industry. Even the British Conservatives have called for more centralized planning. In order to get loans from state banks, many French industrialists embrace "Le Plan"-the government's program for expanding certain industries and restraining others. Governments own outright most of Italian oil and steel, French automaking and banking, British coal and gas, as well as the larger part of Europe's shipping, railroads and broadcasting. Continental businessmen, many of them connected with Catholic-oriented political parties -as in Italy, Belgium and Germany-have also been influenced by the softening of the Catholic Church...
...World War II, successive governments have felt a compulsion to build by spending wildly-and to pay their bills by printing more money. As President in 1956-61, Juscelino Kubitschek performed prodiies of development: a new inland capital of Brasiília, a vast network of roads, thriving new steel and auto industries, all at a cost of giddy inflation and staggering debt. His successor, Jânio Quadros, recognized the dangers, but quit after seven months, leaving the economy at the mercy of Goulart. In a 31-month spending spree, Goulart literally papered the country with money, tripling...
While scenes like this flame up, the play as a whole has the hazy look of a smudge fire. Lorraine Hansberry's intelligence is sharp, her writing can be distinctive, and she has X-ray vision when it comes to spotting the steel or the sponge in a character. But she needs to recover the dramatic directness and drive of her prizewinning first play, A Raisin...