Word: disks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sculptural shapes dominate Collie's show at Manhattan's Nordness Gallery. One is a tilted disk that looks like a model of a flying saucer. Such disks jiggle at a fingertip touch, but may weigh as much as 13 Ibs.-as a thief discovered when he tried to whisk one away from the Chrysler Art Museum, only to have it drop with a clang. The second, also a space-age motif, resembles the hollow cone of a missile. Inside, visible from both ends, are two metallic spheres, one hanging down like a tiny bathysphere on its nylon thread...
Tires represent 60% of Dunlop's business. The rest includes such diverse items as disk brakes, moving sidewalks, even high-fashion boots. With Britons enjoying more leisure time than ever, Managing Director Reay Geddes, 52, is working to see that they spend it using Dunlop golf clubs, tennis rackets, fishing tackle-or latex foam mattresses. Tall, grey-eyed Geddes, who has roamed the world as a salesman, is also busily reorganizing his company. "We had become too big and too varied for a central form of management," says he. Geddes has given more autonomy to managers of Dunlop...
...temperature of Jupiter's cold atmosphere. Although the photometer designed by Engineer James A. Westphal is 20 to 50 times as sensitive as earlier instruments, it registered no change as it scanned the Great Red Spot and the light and dark bands that decorate Jupiter's disk...
Born. To Anita Bryant, 24, recording star (Until There Was You), singing sidekick to Bob Hope in four U.S.O. Christmas tours, and Disk Jockey Robert Green, 33: a daughter; in Miami...
...wrought? By a series of simple edicts, issued by Traffic Commissioner Antonio Pala. On 57 main streets in Rome's three-square-mile central area, all parking-even stopping-was banned. Everywhere else, parking was limited to an hour, and all parked cars were required to display cardboard disks showing the hour of arrival and the hour of expiration. Not even M.D.s were exempt. "A doctor can do almost anything in an hour," a traffic official declared. At the same time, a fleet of midget buses was launched to ferry people from parking areas on the edge...