Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage were six nimble young men in dinner jackets, and strewed around them were more than a hundred percussion instruments-including a horse's jawbone, six water-buffalo bells, eight auto brake drums, a corrugated washboard and a set of bongo drums. When the conductor raised his baton, the young men moved on an assortment of weapons and started to flail away. The effect was like an explosion in a boiler factory. The occasion: an all-percussion concert at New York's Manhattan School of Music, under the direction of Veteran Percussionist Paul Price...
...slow growth of a Soviet middle class "more concerned with retention of what it has than with revolution abroad.'' These Communist bourgeois hunger "for contacts with the outside world, for more goods, for a measure of self-expression," and he believes they will act as a brake on "adventurist Soviet policies...
...they cannot be re-ignited easily. Last week the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Calif, unveiled a fuel system that could solve this problem. It uses hypergolic fuel, i.e., two fluids that ignite as soon as they come in contact. A feed mechanism (using a $3.50 auto brake cylinder) squirts controlled amounts of fuel into the combustion chamber. They ignite when they mingle. So far, the system has been tested only in an experimental rocket engine on the ground. But if it can be developed, the Navy's feed mechanism could be made to obey radioed instructions...
...Budd Co. (automobile brake drums, wheels, etc.) will move out of the red and show a 1958 profit because of a "greatly improved fourth quarter...
...better take a ride-just to make sure the deal was fair and square. Democrat Kefauver, all of 6 ft. 3 in., hunched himself in, buzzed off down a hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that momentum cannot be legislated, he reached for the brake, found none, in desperation napped a leg gingerly over the side. That slowed the racer, but a senatorial foot was bent under a wheel, and over went the bug, Keef and all. Shaken by his joy ride, the Senator checked in later at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital, where the medics...