Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gingerbread on Pie Tins. Warrington Colescott, 43, etches on copper plates to which he glues other small, thin copper plates, collage style. When printed, the little plates emboss themselves more deeply into the paper than the ground plate, giving a perspective effect. "My favorite tool is a pair of airplane mechanic's shears," says Colescott, as he places cutouts on plates like gingerbread men on a pie tin, paradoxically creating foreground by millimeters more depth...
Detroit's operatives keep in constant touch with key informants in such sensitive and hard-to-patrol areas as the tool and die shops, design firms, plaster shops, tire companies and art studios that subcontract for the auto industry. Here they can often pick up information that skilled engineers and product planners can assemble into a faithful replica of a rival's new car. Ford, for example, was able to construct a clay model of General Motors' Chevelle nearly a year before its introduction. Most agents do their work so quietly that only a handful...
...frontpage bulletin on the judge's shift as well as Mabley's column. "The poor choice of language upset us," admitted Francis Poynton, executive assistant to the chief judge of Chicago's municipal court. Said Mabley: "We ran nothing but quotes. This is the most basic tool of journalism-the honest quote. There was not a word of criticism...
...Three Cars. Younger couples account for a sizable amount of the debt: they want to start with a houseful of goods that older couples used to take years to acquire. Bankers consider debt a logical tool of prosperity, particularly since bad debts represent only 1% of total loans outstanding. Consumers have balanced the debt increase with a rise in personal savings, from a customary 7% of disposable income to 8.2% in this year's second quarter. Economists consider this a temporary plateau that will hold until consumers adjust to higher incomes, feel that higher savings could be a backlog...
...room Gran Hotel Bolivar in Lima, Peru. He also controls a New Jersey company that turns out the fast-selling Boonton plastic tableware. Another holding: Houston's Reed Roller Bit Co., which Mecom hopes eventually to make into an oil-equipment supply company rivaling the Hughes Tool Co. Most of all, however, Mecom intends to remain a freewheeling, fast-moving independent oilman. "I'm not selling anything,^ he says. "I'll just keep looking...