Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reaching for a smaller tool, the sculptor pares the head into an elongated, rectangular appendage, no larger than his thumbnail, perhaps one-twentieth the size of the body instead of nature's less than one-seventh. He pushes his own head backward and thrusts the piece forward, studying it with a frown. Then he pokes two tiny indentations to make the eyes. One or more such small maquettes, produced between breakfast and a 1 o'clock lunch, may prove the seed for another of the large reclining women or mother figures to which the mind of Henry Moore...
...tool is yearly testing (aptitude v. achievement), an art that has come far since the old one-shot IQ score. The tests cannot measure inherent ability (testers used to think they could). They do determine "developed ability," a blend of innate talents and outer influences, which can be changed by home and school. With his wiggly blocks and foolish questions. the guidance man strikes some parents as a dangerous bore: George will go to Harvard no matter his score. Let George do it-if he can. Guidance counselors are after bigger game: the brainy boy from a culture-poor family...
...tool of Fidel Castro's battlefield victory last week was a crafty, U.S.-born double agent who worked so smoothly that he lured Castro's enemies into the open at home and conned a Dominican invasion plane into a trap in central Cuba, nipping the first major rebellion against the seven-month-old regime...
...Machine-tool orders, prime indicator of industrial activity, rose 38% above May to hit a new two-year high in June, one of the most significant gains since the orders started to turn up last fall. The June total of $67.3 million was more than double last June's, pushed six-month orders to $307.2 million v. last year's $179.8 million...
September Deadline. So far, TWA's 14 Boeing 707s are being operated on a stopgap, short-term leasing arrangement with Hughes Tool Co. Hughes will be pressed to decide by Sept. 30, when the lease arrangement expires, if he will raise the money to complete payment on the jets by a major refinancing of TWA or by other means. Whatever the choice, Hughes and TWA are in a far stronger position than they were eight months ago, when it looked as if Hughes might be forced to give up control of part of his holdings to raise money. Says...