Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Option Play. In Indianapolis, Delta Tau Delta fraternity brothers at Butler University welcomed one Ray Lincolnholl, highly recommended football prospect, as an overnight guest, next day found Lincolnholl missing, and so were a wristwatch, ring, sweater, leather belt, shaving kit, fountain pen, electric shaver and typewriter...
...Cabinet meetings was also the Paris of the big fashion shows, memorable chiefly for such dramatic developments as the ingenious way Couturier Guy Laroche managed to combine "the popular princess line" with silhouettes resembling a Coke bottle or a bowling pin. In the Paris area's famed "Red belt," Communist-organized workers, whatever their politics, placidly continued to assemble Simcas and Renaults. All France was united...
General Motors' Corvair, most radical of the Big Three compacts, has had the most complaints, though many were the minor bugs that often afflict a completely new car. Chevrolet took advantage of the steel strike shutdown to correct most of them, including a slipping fan belt and carburetor icing. Biggest complaint against the Corvair is its gas mileage, which sometimes runs well under 20 m.p.g., rarely measures up to other compacts. Part of the trouble may be its gasoline heater, which eats up to a quart of gas an hour. Chevrolet engineers have also remodeled the Corvair...
...course and behavior of the Van Allen belts of radiation that surround the earth is still iffy, reported Iowa's Professor James A. Van Allen, who discovered them. The upper belt, which fluctuates wildly in intensity, is probably made of charged particles coming from the sun. The narrow inner belt, he suspects, contains protons and electrons that are decay products of neutrons created by the impact of cosmic rays hitting atoms in the atmosphere. It has not changed appreciably, he said, during the last two years...
...Some of the upper belt's periodic fluctuations can be charged to storms on the sun, which usually last a matter of days. But Drs. Alan Rosen, T. A. Farley and C. P. Sonett of Space Technology Laboratories, Los Angeles, analyzed radioed reports from U.S. satellite Explorer VI, found that at 30,000 miles above the earth the intensity of the radiation some times increased a hundredfold in a few seconds, then dropped back almost as swiftly. They offered no explanation...