Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Home for the busy man about Brazil these days is where he unfastens his seat belt. In an ordinary, mill-of-the-runway week, one Cabinet minister spends Monday and Tuesday in the new capital of Brasilia, Wednesday through Friday at his office in the old capital of Rio de Janeiro, and flies home for the weekend in São Paulo. Publishing Executive João Calmon easily logs 30 flights a month, "which means," he says casually, "that I take off and land practically every day." A sudden crush of crises in his work recently compelled one labor...
...would be in there singing with representatives of 32 other nations at this week's International Song Festival at Sopot, Poland. Swell, but who's LuLu Porter? Well, explained White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, he had heard LuLu, fetching, brown-eyed and 23, belt out nine songs at Ye Little Club in Beverly Hills last spring, later met and congratulated her. Youngest of nine children of a music-loving Ohio farmer, LuLu (nee Marianne Wolford) began singing professionally only a year ago, says her first act was "a bomb." She does a mean belly dance...
...PHRENOLOGICAL LETTUCE PICKER, which "feels" each lettuce head to determine if it is ripe for harvest. Towed over the lettuce bed at one mile per hour, a 6-in. by 18-in. conveyor belt creeps over each head, pushing it downward in passing. The machine's small, electronic memory box has already been told how stiffly a ripe head should resist deflection. If the black box decides the head feels ripe, it triggers a clutch, which in turn sends a miniature guillotine slashing through the lettuce stalk. In recent tests, the machine lopped off some 4,500 heads...
...poolside beer over a banana daiquiri. His credentials: an economy-flight air ticket and a fistful of travel-agency coupons. This is the summer tourist. And thrifty though he may be, he is creating a bustling new industry from Bermuda and the Caribbean west to Mexico-a sun belt better known for its winter lures than its summer tours. Says a busy Nassau hotel manager: "There has never been a summer like...
While physicists are debating the cause of the flares, practical solar meteorologists are learning to identify solar weather conditions that may produce them. First, says Dr. James Van Allen, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belt, a sunspot must be visible. A group of several sunspots is even more likely to produce a flare, but not all do. Often they fade away without a blowoff...