Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private conversations, Schoenman presents another face. He modulates his voice carefully, ticking off the effects of U.S. anti-personnel weapons in a professorial, almost bored tone: "the guava bomb ... steel slivers, each one kills at 150 yards. The fields are pockmarked." Speaking from a profile position, Schoenman attempts to mesmerize the listener. He turns his hands over gracefully, or twists his head slightly to emphasize a point. Only furtive glances from his dark eyes to assess the impression he is making jar the effect...
...first comes the doorman, a 300-lb. bearded ex-bouncer who checks membership cards. Next there is a one-story trip up in a leather-padded freight elevator; then out into the enormous main Factory loft, with its 30-ft.-high steel-trussed ceiling, 54-ft.-long bar, sea of dining tables and minuscule dance floor. Out back is another barroom, with four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice...
...copper, Freeport Sulphur Co. recently found high-grade (4%) ore, and may invest up to $100 million to exploit it. International Nickel just got the go-ahead to start a $1,500,000 survey of nickel deposits on the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), and may invest $100 million. Bethlehem Steel has expressed interest in tin deposits, Boise Cascade in logging concessions. ITT agreed to build a satellite relay station near Djakarta at a cost...
...cable factory in India and a railway-switchgear plant in South Africa. When the company built a hydroelectric plant in Afghanistan, it not only trained mechanics in Germany to run the operation but also erected the electrical and telephone system powered by the plant. Its 300 series computer runs steel mills in Red China, and its electromedical equipment is used by U.S. hospitals...
...discover that throughout your whole life you had been in the process of getting sick," one of the girls said. "Every move you made and every feeling you had had helped make you what you were now--unacceptable to the world." Another Cliffie described her therapy as "a steel claw tearing open my scabs . . . . During each session my hands shook and I could taste snot in my mouth." For some there was an irritating sense of disconnection, a feeling that while their pasts were being microscopically examined, they were wasting their present lives and shortchanging their futures. "Once someone gave...