Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitution the President may succeed himself, and Nasser pointedly failed to rule himself out as a draft choice for renomination. His message got through. Suddenly the Assembly was flooded by a deluge of telegrams, petitions and let ters urging Nasser's renomination. Visitors descended on the chamber, hurrying to get their support down in writing in the guest book. One entry attested that "The Ministry of the Interior and the Supreme Police Council, which employ 150,000 persons and keep a vigilant eye on the security and safety of the nation, express their full faith in President Nasser...
...88th Congress, which enacted 14 major education bills, providing federal money for student loans, vocational training, construction of university facilities, etc. An urbane, persuasive champion of higher educational standards, Keppel gave 101 speeches to groups as varied as the National Symphony Orchestra Association, the United Jewish Appeal and the Chamber of Commerce. (To keep him from furiously racing through speeches, his assistant, John Naisbitt, writes on each page, "Slow down...
After detailed study, Mattox decided that all present plating methods have the same weakness: as they are applied, the atoms of plating materials do not hit the substrate hard enough. Mattox gets around this difficulty by using a chamber filled with argon gas. Inside it the piece of metal to be plated is hooked up as the cathode (negative pole) of an electrical circuit. The plating material forms the anode (positive pole). When a high-voltage direct current is passed through the circuit, positive argon ions fly across the gap and smack the substrate so hard that they blast...
...added that HGSP had, at the present time, no intention of including either Broadway productions or chamber music in its repertoire. "Our move," he said, "is meant in no way to cramp the style of Grant-in-Aid, the Hasty Pudding Show, of the House musicals...
...developed, it will probably be made of Silastic. This is the material that Houston's Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey used for the closest approximation to such an organ ever tried in a human patient. It was a substitute for the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, and it worked for 3½ days, until the patient died of other causes (TIME...