Word: precisionism
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To avoid the heavy casualties of an uphill infantry assault, U.S. commanders devised a wily plan. While the men of the 101st Airborne and 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) stood back, poised to pounce, 900 tear gas grenades blossomed on the ridge to flush the Reds out of their tunnels and bunkers...
Business at First Sight. That is the only old-fashioned thing about Raquel, who pursues her career with the smooth precision of a modern computer. Chicago-born and California-raised, Raquel, now 24, was a Neiman-Marcus model and played a few movie walk-ons before she met her programmer...
Montale has been called "the Italian Eliot," and the comparison is not an idle one. Like Eliot, he stood during the '20s in the vanguard of the poetic revolution that introduced the vernacular into verse. Like Eliot, he has written very little (three volumes of verse and three of...
At El Mirage dry lake, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, the Southern California chapter, which has 250 members, last week was able to mount a 44-plane air force for its annual flyin, put on a dazzling display of aerial stunts, precision landings, and simulated bombing with colored flour...
¶ AUTOMATED ROLLING MILLS. In the most widely used of steel's new bag of tricks, everything in a half mile of machinery is computer-controlled. At hotstrip mills, such as Inland Steel's at Indiana Harbor near Chicago, a serpent-like tongue of red-hot steel is...