Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bizarre. In 1957 the nation's highest tribunal solemnly considered the claim of Railroad Engineer Boyd R. Ringhiser, who had been treating himself for constipation and then, unable to make it fast enough across a busy freight yard, relieved himself in a gondola car-where a load of steel plates suddenly shifted, crushing his leg. That same year, the Court took up the case of a ship's baker who had grabbed a sharp knife instead of a scoop to serve hard ice cream and lost two fingers when the knife slipped. In both cases, the Supreme Court...
...Island Sound and a chain of tidal flats that swarm with migratory birds in spring and fall. In a colorful 1959 se quence, Frasconi shows the crisp, yel low marshland laced with long black lines of birds that seem to pulsate on the paper. Denuded trees float above the steel-blue water, which itself ripples with the grain of the wood. His Homage to Francisco Sabater, honoring the anti-Franco bandit slain in 1960, shows the same respect for what wood...
Died. Avery Comfort Adams, 65, chairman from 1958 until last May of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., the nation's fourth largest producer (1962 sales: $790 million), a suave product of Choate and Yale ('20) who served as a top executive in eight other steel companies before taking over as boss of Jones & Laughlin, where he bitterly contested fellow Choate Man John F. Kennedy's 1962 rollback of steel prices, declaring himself an original member of "the S.O.B. Club"; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh...
...Florida Power Co. Aluminum is going into more and more boats as well as into railroad cars and truck bodies; New Orleans' Avondale Shipyards recently launched the world's largest aluminum barge, a giant whose lightness enables it to carry 14% more cargo weight than similar steel barges...
...Puny beside steel's 108 million tons, but aluminum weighs so much less...