Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's Princess Margaret climbed into a trailer parked close to the great radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, just south of Manchester, England. At a control panel was Bill Young of Los Angeles, who adjusted knobs and switches and then told the princess: "You push this button in one minute, 15 seconds." Meg waited. When Young said "Push," she touched the button marked "Execute Command." Red and white lights showed on the control panel, telling Young and Princess Meg that a radio signal had started from the radio telescope and was speeding across space at light's speed...
...warning horn wails. Then comes a 30-second delay during which a trapped electrician could hit one of the nine handy scram switches and stop further action. Putnam presses a button, and direct current from a roomful of transformers and rectifier tubes flows into Zeus...
...clerical garb, though he actually spent only $2.37-for button-in-the-back collars...
...Manhattan premiere of the movie Can-Can (see CINEMA), New York University Junior Carol Heiss, 20, newly crowned queen of Olympic figure skating, showed up with a fellow bladesman, Dick Button, 30, who won the men's title in the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics. Earlier, in properly cold weather, Carol was honored by some 250,000 admirers, who cheered her way up snow-lined lower Broadway. After she had kissed Mayor Robert Wagner Jr. seven, times (once for him, six more times for photographers), His Honor piped: "Best thing that's happened...
...signal from Pioneer V's 5-watt transmitter on schedule and swung slowly to track it through the sky. Bill Young listened. Twenty-seven minutes after the launch, when the rocket was about 5,000 miles above the earth's surface, he pressed a button that sent a radio impulse to the telescope's big dish, and from there it was beamed into space. Pioneer V got the message. A switching device in its electronic insides shot an electric current through a fusible bolt. The bolt melted and released a spring. It pushed Pioneer V away from...