Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany's ambassador in Moscow, whose loud advocacy of rapprochement with Russia last fall earned him a personal dressing down from Adenauer himself. Last week Kroll was again ordered home by the angry Chancellor, following press reports that in private talks he had been urging an astonishing array of concessions to Russia, among them a demilitarized West Berlin, admission of both East and West Germany to the United Nations, and a $2½ billion West German credit to help the Soviet economy...
...prewar product line, Matsushita has added a staggering array of new products including television sets, tape recorders, hearing aids, mechanical massagers, electric pencil sharpeners and electrically heated trousers; now he is developing a home freezer and a line of computers...
When Picasso's 5,000-lb. array of bronze Bathers arrived in Houston last week. Museum of Fine Arts Director James Johnson Sweeney took an anxious look around the museum's Mies van der Rohe-designed Cullinan Hall, wondering where to put them. Then Sweeney, who used to run various museums on the East Coast, recalled that he was in Texas and quickly built a swimming pool for The Bathers' ponderous plunge...
From stem to stern, the Eltanin sprouts radio and radar antennas. The biggest of them, an imposing array of two intersecting squares, is specially designed to listen for "whistlers," the strange, low-frequency radio signals that strike down from outside the atmosphere. Most whistlers heard in the Antarctic are believed to originate in lightning flashes in the northern hemisphere. The radio waves apparently climb thousands of miles into the fringes of the ionosphere, guided by the earth's magnetic field; then they curve down again to hit a "coordinate point" in the southern hemisphere...
...arrives in his own time, according to the moment, the place, even the season." Redon never could explain how the "mysterious personage" worked for him, but he had no real need to. As the show proves once again, seldom has one man's imagination disgorged such an astonishing array of apparitions and turned them into...