Word: craning
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Married. Lana Turner, 39, who foreshadowed 3-D as the screen's original Sweater Girl; and California Rancher Fred May, 43; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Santa Monica, Calif. Miss Turner's previous husbands: Clarinetist Artie Shaw; Restaurateur Steve Crane, whom she married twice ("I was lonely. I have to have someone to love, and there was Steve"); Socialite and Tin-Plate Heir Bob Topping ("This is forever"); Film Tarzan Lex Barker...
...CRANE Hastings, New Zealand...
Heerwego: You'll have to move on out, my friends, before the big crane with the big steel bell moves on in--and SMASH...
...every way it was a wonderful foot race. In at least one way it told more about the 1960 Olympics than any other single event. For nearly three laps, the winner-a hawk-nosed, crane-legged fellow with a familiar, loping stride-stayed back with the pack in the i.soo-meter race. Then, with disheartening ease, he moved past the leaders and began to draw away. Rounding the last turn, he saw his coach waving a white shirt as a signal that he had a chance to break his own world record of 3:36. Thereupon Australia's Herb...
...Army needed a giant ditchdigger. Barber-Greene Co. built one: a voracious behemoth that can dig a continuous trench 2-ft. wide and 6-ft. deep through any surface, including rock and coral, is now available to commercial purchasers. Le Tourneau Inc. of Texas built a mobile island crane that can be towed out to an offshore construction site, its legs sunk and anchored while it does its job. The job finished, the legs can be retracted, and the island crane towed to another site. Not all products are so complex-or necessary: a harassed doctor invented a candy-coated...