Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...poses hungrily on a bookcase. A black crow, wings outstretched, sits on a windowsill. Brightly colored small birds perch on pencil tops, and a brown bat swings malevolently from the ceiling, suspended by a nearly invisible wire. All look amazingly lifelike, preserved by Meryman's "freeze-dry" process and apparently able to stay in good condition indefinitely. The fox was shot by Meryman when it invaded his hen house. "He accounted for 27 hens," says Meryman, "before I freeze-dried him." The other specimens were collected along the shoulders of busy Southern highways. Says Meryman: "I'm always...
...fully elevated position, the elevating muscles automatically relax, and the tautly stretched depressing muscles take over. The same sequence is repeated on the downswing. The flying muscles do not need to be triggered by nerve commands. The insect's nerves serve only to start and stop the process-like the car's ignition...
...taxidermist these days," says John Anglim, chief of exhibits at Washington's Smithsonian Institution. "Young people just don't go into this field any more." For the Smithsonian-which normally employs six taxidermists-and for other U.S. museums there is good news: an inexpensive, do-it-yourself process that may make the taxidermist's knife and needle as obso lete as a black snake's cast-off skin...
...Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000. The best price for nearly comparable U.S. equipment was $540.-ooo. Furthermore, the Japanese equipment eliminates a full step in the spinning process and includes extra devices worth $250,000 more. By cutting out one step in the spinning process, Mauney needed six less employees. But greater efficiency permits the Mauneys to raise the minimum wage for their 85 employees from $1.15 to $1.25 per hour...
...dedicated last week at Freeport, Texas. From the Gulf of Mexico more than 1,000,000 gallons of sea water will be pumped daily to a $1,246,000 plant being built by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. Plant's purpose: to produce potable water by a distillation process for $1 or less per 1 ,000 gallons, the lowest cost anywhere in the world...