Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fingers. You can eat walleyed pike from Minnesota and see a chef from India baking bread in mud pots. In the calm oasis of the Irish pavilion, you can drink coffee primed with Irish whisky and listen on earphones to actors like Micheal MacLiammoir and Siobhan McKenna reading Yeats, Swift or Synge. In the Indonesian pavilion, you can look over the Indonesian girls that were personally selected by President Sukarno. There is even a portrait of a beautiful woman painted six years ago by Sukarno himself. Upstairs more girls dance to the gamelan music of Bali...
Made-in-U.S. Look. Both boats were designed by Britain's David Boyd, whose first twelve was Sceptre. But Boyd thinks he has learned about blue-water sailing since then. Gone are Sceptre's tubby lines; the new boats have a swift, made-in-U.S. look with sharp, clean bows, narrow hulls and wide sterns. They could be twins except for the keels: Sovereign's is V-shaped and knife sharp, while Kurrewa's is heavier and rounded...
...that will be able to carry important calls even if all above-ground wires are destroyed in a nuclear attack. It is also developing a wide array of new equipment, including pushbutton phones, which have just gone into use in 35 cities, and a new electronic switching system so swift that it will be able to handle 1,000,000 telephone calls between two ticks of the clock...
...Swift Action. At a Detroit meeting of the American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers, engineers from General Dynamics' General Atomics Division demonstrated how the principle works in practice. Magneform - a tool little larger than a home washing machine and using no more current than an electric range - has no moving parts at all. Its essential part is a coil of heavy wire that can take var ious shapes, including a cylinder, a doughnut or a flat disk. When a massive electric current from a capacitor is shot suddenly through a coil, it creates an intense magnetic field...
...literary underworld abounds with stories about great writers who were also great pornographers. Mark Twain amused himself and friends with outhouse humor; so did Benjamin Franklin. Passages of Swift are brutally obscene. Byron and Swinburne both dipped their pens in blue ink, while even Thackeray could line out a lickerish limerick. Perhaps the most famous respectable smutmaster is Robert Burns, whose collection of bawdy Scottish verse has been circulating in more or less clandestine versions for more than 150 years. The collection as now published is as close to the original as scholarship is likely to achieve, bar ring...