Word: steel
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Fragile and finely-balanced machines usually get unthinking respect from us poor humans, but who has not dreamed sometimes of impulsively jamming a crowbar into the glassy cool facade of a computer? Watching Peter Townshend furiously poke his guitar with a gleaming steel microphone stand was strangely uplifting. Perhaps this is the mystical turn-on that violence is said to give. One can reasonably hope that such exhibitions as the Who's will only serve as emotional releases and not create a taste for violence for its own sake...
...princess, she was married off to a czarist general at the age of 16, but deserted him after three months and eventually showed up in Cairo as a psychic medium. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1874, she took up with a former Civil War staff colonel named Henry Steel Olcott, persuaded him to help her found the theosophist society the following year-and spent the rest of her life writing the society's doctrine. Controversial wherever she went, she was accused in 1885 by the Society for Psychical Research in London of fraud, forgery and even of spying...
Outside jobs are, however, permitted. Although it can mean 16-hour work- days, moonlighting reservists are commonplace, as civilians struggle to adjust their incomes to military pay scales. "I took a pay cut of $300 per month," says Specialist Four David Waters, a steel-company billing clerk now with the 151st. "Did it hurt? You better believe it." For some reservists, call-up has knocked up to $10,000 off their annual earnings. Weekdays at 5 p.m., Airman First Class Mike Fields quits the 445th Military Airlift Wing's administrative offices at Dobbins Air Force Base outside Marietta...
...brute power. "The only things we're trying to prove," says Long, "are that we can finish first and break records doing it." And hang the expense. Designed by Long Island Architect William Tripps, Ondine has a hull and masts entirely constructed of aluminum; her rigging is stainless steel. It takes 27 winches to handle her 2,900 sq. ft. of sail-including two huge Graydon Smith "coffee grinders" that are improved versions of those used on last year's America's Cup winner, Intrepid, and cost $20,000 apiece. Ondine has two cockpits (to keep other...
...AMERICAN CHALLENGE by J.J. Servan-Schreiber, translated by Ronald Steel. 291 pages. Atheneum...