Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NASA insists that the economies will not bring new dangers. Kennedy Space Center Director Kurt Debus says that only one case of sloppy workmanship attributable to morale has come to his attention: having accidentally snapped a screw on a key spacecraft section, a workman glued the other half into place. He feared that he might be laid off if his company-a private contractor -had to go to the time and expense of drilling out the screw...
...Seraphim). Gieseking's Mozartian style has slid out of fashion somewhat since these recordings were made in the early 1950s; nowadays he is considered just a bit slick and overrefined. But concert pianists, more conscious of quality than fashion, still justly envy the high gloss and exquisite workmanship of Gieseking. Seraphim's low price and lucid reproduction of the mono-only sound make the release a prize for the economy-minded...
Because of the shortage of fine workmanship, Hollywood is hard put to keep up with the tie-dye boom-which has spread to everything from long-John underwear at $10 a set to wall hangings at $500. After Annie, the West Coast tie-dyer most in demand is Artist Bert Bliss, who has been at it for more than 20 years. Bliss, who works with rayon chiffons, cottons and velvets, does his dyeing in the kitchen, like any housewife. And instead of Annie's concoctions of lye and anilines, he uses a home dyeing product called Rit, right from...