Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alan Shepard on his suborbital flight. Inside the building glittered the American Rocket Society's "Space Flight Report to the Nation"-an astonishing exhibition of the phony and the competent, the trivial and the magnificent. Some of the objects on exhibit were miracles of deft design and precision workmanship. Others were not working so well. (A computer kept typing petulantly: "I can't see a thing without my glasses.") Still others would probably never work at all. Mused an engineer about a crude device for exploring the moon: "It's wonderful what a kid can do with...
...ritual vessels. The intricate decoration not only warded off evil but provided a gateway for the artist's imagination. Fantastic animals, ogres' heads, symbols of the yang and yin, and finally the human figure, all made their appearance, and the bronzes themselves were never surpassed in the workmanship of later artisans...
...least holding its own. Russian workmanship has disillusioned many Afghans, e.g., the surfacing on Kabul's streets proved so shoddy that the Afghans had to redo them all. In contrast, the U.S. has made a big effort in the education field and seen it pay off. Some $14.8 million has been spent on school building and scholarships; 460 bright Afghan students have been sent...
What's wrong with the U.S. missile-base construction program? Last week, as the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, began hearings in Washington, it was evident that plenty is. Besides union troubles (TIME, Aug. 15), workmanship on the pads has often been shockingly sloppy; pieces of wooden plank, loose bolts, and cigarette butts have been found in the propellant-fuel storage tanks...
There was more logic than that to the choice. Hard-driving John Dykstra has helped Ford make substantial progress in solving a prime problem-quality control. As vice president for manufacturing, he has haunted the production lines, insisting on tighter inspection, better workmanship. Chiefly through his efforts Ford raised the quality of its cars and trucks so markedly that it was able to catch the rest of the industry by surprise last October by offering a twelve-month or 12,000-mile warranty instead of the then standard three months or 4,000-mile guarantee. Says Dykstra: "We are striving...