Word: bulb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Craig was born with a problem: his father, grandfather, great-grandfather and two uncles were all lawyers. The legal profession seemed an unavoidable family inheritance, and he wanted to escape. He went to Stanford determined to become an engineer, switched to economics, worked as a fuel and light bulb salesman after graduation. Only when he found out how hard it was to make a living did Craig give in and go back to Stanford to study law. He was on the right track at last. He has prospered handsomely as a corporation lawyer in Phoenix, Ariz., and today...
...cheekbones and a baboon brow ridge, and was married to a sledgehammer lower jaw . . . timidity grafted to courage, sensitiveness to violence, and an abstract mind to muddleheaded mysticism." Kelen's subject: Rudolf Hess. Other notable Kelen portraits: » John Foster Dulles: "His eyes blinked intermittently like an electric bulb loose in its socket, and he made sucking motions with his mouth as if chewing thumbtacks." » Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Bulbous nose, dolorous eyes, tight lips . . . like a punchinello whose feelings have been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa...
Jesus & Janizaries. A bulb lighted up in his epic brain. Movies filmed in Spain could earn fluid money for their backers elsewhere in the world. Appealing to several American corporations that had plenty of cold pesetas, he said he wanted to film the story of John Paul Jones...
Died. Cromwell Arthur Bedford Halvorson, 80, inventor and General Electric engineer, who turned Thomas Edison's original light bulb into a flood of stop lights, headlights and searchlights, most notably the arc light that in 1911 made Broadway the Great White Way; of a heart attack; in Salem, Mass...
...wondrous ways in the icy world of low, low temperatures. By slowing the movement of electrons and thus reducing resistance to electricity to almost nothing, the extreme cold of liquid nitrogen, for example, gives an electric magnet four times or more the usual pull and makes a light bulb shine 20 times brighter. Linde has also found that whole blood and body tissues can be preserved indefinitely when frozen with nitrogen...