Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy sent a ringing message to the Senate, urging ratification (see box opposite). And the Senate, which must approve the pact by a two-thirds vote, seemed certain to say yes, sometime next month-after hearings and floor debate. Said Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton in a curious choice of words: "I think we have no choice but to vote for it. Either from a national or a worldwide standpoint, we are on a tough petard...
...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 an hour...
...desolation of the pursuit of sexual pleasure. As Wedekind's translator put it, "he dealt in 'the hellish drive out of which no joy remains alive.' " In both of his plays, Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box), Wedekind centered this hell in a promiscuous woman, Lulu...
Sabotage began almost immediately. Coin box slots were stuffed with chewing gum or wax. Cables were cut or damaged with rifles, shotguns, dynamite and axes; a row of 22 telephone poles was neatly cut down with a power saw. Fortnight ago in St. Petersburg, a dynamite charge under a bridge ripped apart an 1800-wire cable, and last week 9,000 families in Lakeland lost phone service when seven cables were cut. Though supervisory people man telephone equipment and make repairs, sabotage often cuts off service to one area before it can be restored in another. Among the cut lines...
...came midway in Mr. Justice Marshall's remorseless, five-hour summing-up of the evidence. "There may be many reasons why he has been abandoned in his extremity," declared the red-robed judge. "One thing is clear: if Stephen Ward was telling the truth in the witness box, there are in this city many witnesses of high estate and low who could have come and testified in support of his evidence...