Word: strung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...note for note, word for word, the brilliance of the new Beatles. In three months, it has sold a staggering 2,500,000 copies-each a guaranteed package of psychic shivers. Loosely strung together on a scheme that plays the younger and older generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. A Day in the Life, for example, is by all odds the most disturbingly beautiful song the group has ever produced. The narrator's mechanical progress through the day ("Dragged...
...South China metropolis of Canton, a West German visitor was stopped cold by the sight of a corpse dangling from a traffic light. "What was his crime?" the traveler asked. His girl guide coolly explained that quite a few people are getting strung up in Canton because "they are political...
...black flags flapped from every lamppost, and gigantic portraits of Fidel Castro, Guerrilla Expert Che Guevara and "Carlos" Marx glowered from windows and walls of office buildings. Banners were strung here and there with the slogan: IF YOU WANT TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY, START A REVOLUTION. One of the proudest achievements of Castro's revolution-Havana's Coppelia Tee Cream Parlor-was dishing out more flavors (54), as it likes to boast, than even Howard Johnson does. In the crowded dining rooms of Havana's five "luxury" hotels, three waiters orbited eagerly around each table, smiling broadly...
...some of the country's northern areas are among the most arid in the world, receiving practically no rainfall despite their moisture-laden atmosphere. Observing that the fog collected into drops on nylon lines, scientists at the Northern University of Chile in Antofagasta constructed wood and metal frames strung with vertical strands of nylon and set them up on nearby hills. As the fog was blown through the frames by the evening wind, it formed water droplets on the strands that dripped into receptacles below, quickly filling them. With enough frames, the Chilean scientists believe they can supply...
Half Mile of Nylon. This sounded good to fog-conscious Wesley Bellis, research director of the New Jersey department of transportation. He set up a research group, which finally evolved a "fogbroom," a 30-in. by 48-in. aluminum frame strung with a half mile of nylon thread and rotated at 86 r.p.m. by a base-mounted motor. In a research chamber in which a prime New Jersey fog can be simulated, a row of fogbrooms substantially thinned a test fog in a minute and completely cleaned it up in five minutes...