Word: tungsten
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...that's why there are so many excellent players today. A good grip is like a solid hinge on an oak door." Sarazen goes back to hickory sticks that required shellacking in the rain, and is amused by the '80s fashion, which encompasses titanium shafts, tungsten fibers, beryllium-copper, manganese-bronze and high-modulus graphite. "Of course," he says, "the modern player thinks it's the equipment. You know that's baloney...
...TIME Photographer Ted Thai, Baltimore's new image posed an unusual challenge. Because the new National Aquarium was so well integrated into its surroundings that it "blended into the background," Thai used ten tungsten floodlights to illuminate the 157-ft. building and shot the picture at night. "We made the building glow like a huge lantern," says Thai. "When the architect saw it he was thrilled." Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, who edited the story, recalls visiting East Baltimore Street's notorious "Block" while stationed near by in the Army in 1960-but Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who wrote...
...Government hopes to help finance a bigger strategic stockpile by selling off $6 billion in excess supplies of some minerals, including silver, tin and tungsten. But with the total cost of rebuilding America's strategic storehouse put at $20 billion, the process could be long. At the current pace the job will not be completed until about...
...living artist to be seen in New York at present is at the Whitney: "Light and Space," by a 37-year-old Californian named James Turrell. A spare-time pilot and full-time sculptor, Turrell has filled an entire floor of the Whitney with almost nothing: some walls, some tungsten and fluorescent lamps, and the reactions between them. To say that he has posed some ingenious visual conundrums on an ambitious scale is true, but insufficient. Turrell has also contrived an exquisite poetry out of near emptiness...
...noisy inferno at Westinghouse's lamp factory in Bloomfield, N.J., a Unimate 2015G robot performs a process called "swaging." This is somewhat like making spaghetti, but it is done with 21-in. rods of yellow tungsten, destined to become light-bulb filaments. The robot lifts them off a conveyor belt and sticks them into a blazing furnace (3,200° F), then into a swaging machine that stretches the rods until they have grown to 37 in. in length and shrunk to exactly .467 in. in diameter. Three workers, each of whom cost the company $20,000 per year...