Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around a series of stages showing American home life (appliance division) at 20-year intervals from the turn of the century to the present. Moving, talking, life-size dummies inhabit the sets, which unintentionally plug nonprogress by going from a scene that recalls the cozy charms of the icebox, wood stove, gaslight era to one that all too plainly spells out the sterile joys and chilly conveniences of a modern electric home that has little taste and no charm...
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...burglar alarm, San Francisco police sped to a liquor store's freshly jimmied door. Loitering there was William R. Woodward, 30, a private detective with no previous criminal record. On the ground was a tire iron that had apparently come from his nearby car. The cops arrested Wood ward for attempted burglary. But there were no fingerprints on the tire iron, and Woodward stoutly denied the charge. How to build a case? Answer: "radiation fingerprints," a new scientific crime detector that makes Sherlock Holmes look like Deputy Dawg...
...right number of beats before they heard their cue. And when that was perfected, there came the problem of achieving the fading effect. Mozart, with probably a small garden in mind, had scored each "orchestra" as a string quartet with two horns. This did not work in Tangle-wood's 6,000-seat arena. The problem was finally solved by beefing up Orchestra One to 26 pieces, giving Two 15, Three 9, and Four 13. All strings were muted in Four, three-quarters of them in Three, half in Two. Leinsdorf's orchestra played full strength...
Changing the Sea. So far, researchers have found 33,000 ways in which fiber glass could replace steel, aluminum, wood or cloth. Fiber glass now goes into ladders and luggage, pipes and Polaris missiles, building sidings and shotguns. Some manufacturers are developing it for dresses, and the Canadians are making fiber glass igloos for north woods sportsmen. Automobile bodies, when runs are limited to 50,000 cars of a specialized model, can be made more economically using fiber glass instead of steel. Fiber glass makers hope eventually to replace steel or nylon cord in tires, and thereby take over...