Word: beams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall on the ice as she and Bobby skim a rink for the benefit of photographers and the skaters' vote. Abigail McCarthy totters out of a sickbed to stump for Gene. Happy Rockefeller endures scores of bone-crushing handshakes daily. Pat Nixon makes her millionth airport arrival, to beam and greet the faithful. Only Muriel Humphrey, recuperating from an operation, has been spared...
SMALL films creep weekly in-and-out of Washington Street's huge movie palaces, one-time legitimate theatres whose vaudeville slates still hang adjacent to the vast screens now lit dimly by the beam of a projector hundreds of yards away. Here play the films which last only seven days, the product that changes each Wednesday, supplied by a distribute who senses vaguely that the theatrical release of Robert Wagner films is a hollow formality prior to a greater pay-off of television sale and a nationwide screening on Saturday Night at the Movies. And when...
Last week the Army finally revealed some of the technical wizardry that makes the scopes work. Unlike the World War II infantry sniperscope that illuminated its target with an infra-red beam, the starlight scope needs no light of its own. Thus it is undetectable by enemy sensors. It uses only natural light, no matter how dim-moonlight, starlight, even the faint luminescence of decaying jungle foliage. Capable of amplifying light up to 40,000 times, it literally treats the darkest night...
...bleachers, they will watch 4,000 uniformed Israelis wend their way through both the old and the new city. Jets will fly overhead, Centurion tanks will rumble past the ancient walls and 66 pieces of captured Arab armor will be displayed. Inaugurating its nationwide TV system, the Israelis will beam the spectacle to Cairo, Amman and other Arab capitals -just in case anyone is watching...
...Marijuana defies quantification by its very essence; you must learn to handle it comfortably. Almost always it makes us hungry, and we eat ravenously-just about anything, all of which tastes much better than ever before, since the senses for some reason seem to be more on the beam...