Word: trident
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most characteristic of Bahian art were wrought-iron figures of the dread god Exú, pronounced eh-shoe (see color page). As with other Bahian folk figures, Exú suffered a sea change in being transplanted from Africa. Among other things, he acquired the horns and trident of the Christian devil, and a wife (to keep him more content). Exú's power for death and destruction is unquestioned by thousands of believers, who rarely refer to him by name. They call him simply O Compadre (The Companion...
...women (Miss Sal, Lulu, Shady Lady), men (Jim Jam, Little Bub, Crafty Chris), in memeriam (Last Cent, Mama's Mink, Overtime), music (Rock 'n' Roll, Intermezzo), the sea (Blue Water, Sea Legs); little boats get little names (Yap Yap, Pixie); big ones get big names (Delphine, Trident, Chanticleer); and many are just hopefully witty (Tireless, Tubeless, Yacht-Ta-Ta). They doll up their boats with color TV sets, love to rig up the latest mariner's aids-radar, sounding devices, ship's-bell clocks, ship-to-shore telephones (more than 35,000). Their women wear...
...Bell Aircraft's X2, carried aloft by a mother plane, reached 126,000 ft. The previous world's record (unofficial) in ground-to-air flights-80,190 ft.-was made a fortnight ago by a French Trident...
Died. Charles Goujon, 45, topnotch French test pilot ("I'm thorough, obstinate, almost stubborn"), completing three years of tests on France's fastest (1,400 m.p.h. in level flight) rocket-and jet-powered interceptor plane, the Trident, when the Trident II mysteriously disintegrated in the air; over Melun-Villaroche, about 35 miles southeast of Paris...
...Morane-Saulnier craft flew Ambassador to the U.S. Maurice de Murville from Washington to New York in 35 minutes, setting a civil aviation record In pure research, France's large Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back of a mother ship and released...