Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blind boy in Buena Vista. Then, after a short walk to the changing room on the third floor, he stripped to his shorts-condemned men must wear as little as possible so that cyanide will not cling to their clothes and endanger guards-and walked into the gas chamber. Five seconds after a pound of cyanide eggs had been dropped into the vat of acid beneath his chair, he was unconscious. Sixteen minutes later he was pronounced dead...
...dioxide and ammonia gas. Thus the air in the vicinity of a large group of men-especially in hot and humid climates-contains high concentrations of ammonia. To detect the ammonia, the E63 scoops up air, passes it over a wick saturated with hydrochloric acid and into a humidifying chamber. If the air contains any ammonia, a fog forms, changing the amount of light shining on a photoelectric cell and varying the amount of electric current that it produces. The current variation in turn increases the frequency of a beeping sound in the operator's headphones and produces...
Predicting Peace. Individual projects include the expected in civil engineering: the design of 20-story buildings at M.I.T., where, before the computer, students labored over plans for two-story structures. A music student at Carnegie Tech composed a musical score by computer; after its performance by a chamber-music society, critics called it "flat but interesting." Art students at Harvard create modern abstractions by using a computer to scan a conventional scene, then program it to delete parts of the picture. Two M.I.T. political science students fed 300 variables from two dozen small wars into computers to predict the outcome...
...proper in this kind of Hollywood hokum, she does both. But before the final fadeout she is preached at and screeched at by Roddy McDowall as her manager, Phil Harris as a TV producer, and Mrs. Miller (TIME, May 13, 1966) as herself. After a cascade of blaring echo-chamber numbers, Mrs. Miller's wobbly warbling sounds peculiarly pure and fresh. She seems the coolest of them...
...previously announced band concert at Syracuse University's Grouse Hall were in for a jolt. The band had been canceled, and in its place was a performance with two pianos that were out of tune with each other, a soprano who bent her notes off pitch, and a chamber ensemble that blatted, swooped and squeaked like an ordinary orchestra warming up. At first it all sounded merely crabbed and comic, but soon it also took on the astringent freshness of a brave new musical vocabulary. It was a group of the Syracuse music faculty in a concert of quarter...