Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gravity forces. In a "g suit" hooked up to an automatic air-compressor system, I felt a giant's fist pressing into my belly, two pairs of giant hands around my thighs and calves, to retard the flow of blood to the feet and reduce the risk of blackout. Belatedly I remembered to try the "M1 maneuver"-tensing the abdominal muscles to reduce the blood drainage still more. The g-meter needle crept up past 2 to 3 and on to 4. My normal 145 lbs. now weighed 580: I felt compressed, depressed. Even the light rubber ball...
Died. Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle, 77, tough longtime boss of Chicago's electrical workers, who twice (1921 and 1937) threw the city into blackout paralysis; of a heart attack; in Miami. Boyle was nicknamed for his tactful method of collecting bribes; in Johnson's saloon, his unofficial headquarters on West Madison Street, he would hang his big cotton bumbershoot on the edge of the bar, discuss terms with "clients," disappear while they slipped the cash into the umbrella. One reported result: when the law wanted to know how he had managed to save $350,000 in eight...
...stage blackout in each scene is inevitable, but the preliminaries vary in length and tone in accordance with the social position and temperament of the protagonists. The content however, is remarkably the same...
...their classrooms, but as pupils grow up to the sixth grade they devote almost equal time to school (27½ hours a week) and televiewing (26 hours a week). Other findings: ¶ Offered a choice, 51% of the children would prefer a sound spanking to a parental blackout of their favorite program. ¶ Parents must threaten or nag 43% of the youngsters to wrench them from TV at mealtimes, 46% at bedtime...
Despite the inefficiency-or indifference -of Venezuela's censors, the government warned newsmen that they would be expelled if they tried to beat the blackout. By way of emphasis, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois was bounced out of the country within 24 hours of his arrival, could not return until after the government was overthrown. Within half an hour of Dictator Pérez Jiménez' flight, the ten-year-old censorship was scrapped. Nonetheless, newsmen still had a complaint: to quell street rioting, the new government slapped a ban on liquor sales that proved...