Word: belt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just occasionally, among themselves, they tell their thoughts. "I know what they say about white, Protestant Southerners coming from the Bible belt, and all that, but I tell you, this is just not our kind of people up here," one confided...
Back in the borscht belt, Jennie Grossinger sorrowed: "Debbie is adorable and so is Eddie. Two nicer people they don't come. I hope it'll blow over like little grey clouds." But the clouds kept darkening-as far away as Miami. There, Artist Ralph Cowan was stuck with a life-size portrait of Debbie that she had ordered for Eddie's birthday. "Now she doesn't want it," said Cowan. He also had a portrait of Liz on hand. "The man who ordered it never finished the payments." So Cowan shipped it to an eager...
...make the guests happy," said the entertainment director at Camp Tamiment in the Poconos, and young Jerry Robbins did-as a borscht-belt dancer. Jerry (whose real name was Rabinowitz) wanted to be a chemist, but his immigrant father was toughing it out in the corset business in Weehawken, N.J., and Jerry had to take what jobs he could find...
...Cosmic radiation will not halt manned space flight, said Spaceman von Braun. The belt of radiation newly discovered by the Explorer satellites was unexpected, but most of it seems of low energy, and protection should be possible. Agreeing, Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the belt is probably only several earth-diameters wide at most, not enough for a fatal radiation dose during a flight of several hours through...
...Heavy shielding may also be unnecessary, suggested Physicist S. Fred Singer of the University of Maryland. He believes the belt starts at 250 miles beyond earth, stops at 40,000 miles, is most intense above the equator and weakest above the poles. He theorizes that it consists of protons, trapped by the earth's magnetic field, which spiral around lines of magnetic force at right angles. Thus a manned vehicle (launched near the poles) might carry a lightweight shielding ring to avoid proton concentrations, or use magnetic screening to repel them. Also possible: a satellite designed to "sweep...