Word: briens
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Master & Slaves. Decca, developed mostly in Britain (but invented by William O'Brien, a U.S. engineer), is a "hyperbolic" system that uses groups of four stations. One of them is a master, the others "slaves" arranged around it 60-100 miles apart. The Decca receiver is set to receive the waves of all three slave stations, and measure the microseconds of time they take to reach it. When the waves from two stations arrive at the same time, the airplane must be at the same distance from both stations...
...cast for the Lowell House spring production of Arthur Honnegger's King Pausole was announced yesterday by producer Steven A. Bell '60. Included as principals are Alvarez Bulos 1G, Radcliffe students Joy Meyers and O'Brien Nicholas, John Scullin '60, and Harvey White...
Playwright Allen Boretz has brought back an old acquaintance: the honest cop victimized by politics and the fickle citizenry; with Edmond O'Brien, Jack Warden...
...years, Christmas retail sales last week finished a surprising 4% ahead of record 1957. In Chicago subzero weather held December sales well below last year almost up to the final week. Then the weather and the customers' sales resistance thawed out together. Vice President J. Chalmers O'Brien of the Loop's 104-year-old Carson Pirie Scott reported that the Monday before Christmas, sales were the highest for any shopping day ever, and "by quite a margin." Near the North Shore, the Old Orchard shopping center said that its tenant Marshall Field "had terrific 1957 figures...
...veteran Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys, normally the very picture of diplomatic dignity, provided a giddy moment when he picked up his wife's train and did a few jolly jig steps in time to Marine Band music as the stately baroness (widow of Connecticut's late Senator Brien McMahon) strode elegantly into the East Room after dinner...