Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Representatives of Bell and Stanton, a New York public relations firm which represents Fine Wines of California, will guide the group through seminars on Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Rhine wines, and on brandy...
...remark made to him by a young man during the campaign: "I can't for the life of me figure why anybody would want to be Governor of this state." And even as Scranton was taking the oath of office from State Supreme Court Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr., 70, who served 20 days as Governor in 1947, the problems of being Pennsylvania's chief executive were recalled by seven other ex-Governors. Their bitter sweet memories, as published in the Philadelphia Bulletin...
...what disease of space is cured by electrical exercise? The Bell men were aware that transistors behave strangely after they are bathed in powerful radiation. Ions (electrically charged particles) released by the radiation are attracted to electrically charged parts of the transistors. There they form a surface layer that prevents the transistors from working properly. Something of this sort may have happened to Telstar. It was built to resist an expected level of radiation in space, but just before it was launched, the U.S. exploded a powerful nuclear test bomb above the atmosphere near Johnston Island (TIME, July 20). Eminent...
Zero Gate. To find out whether space radiation was the guilty party, Bell engineers hooked up a command decoder just like Telstar's and exposed it to gamma rays in a shielded chamber. It went out of action quickly, and the engineers traced the trouble to a single transistor called the "zero gate" designed to react to short pulses-coded zeros-in command signals. With the zero-counting transistor blocked by ions, the decoder could receive no zeros, and a binary code, which consists only of zeros and ones, is meaningless if deprived of half its vocabulary...
Tolls & Tabulations. If a man had a bridge on his land, he charged neighbors and strangers a toll to cross it.* When a woman died, the church bell tolled six times. A man was worth nine. Then, after a pause, the exact age of the late member of the congregation was tintintabulated for all to note...