Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maze, Trova says he meant the boxlike environment to be a "complicated" one. One figure is enclosed in a Plexiglas chamber, another figure is trying to get into one, while the third and fourth are lost among the partitions...
Some time in March, in a chamber 400 feet below the tip of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Egyptian and American scientists will set up a spark chamber to detect a component of cos mic rays called muons. Actually sub atomic particles traveling close to the speed of light, some of the muons will be energetic enough to penetrate the dense structure of the pyramid and pass through the spark chamber, a device consisting of two horizontal pairs of oppositely charged metal plates. Be cause the muon leaves a wake of ionized gas, which conducts electricity, a spark will jump...
...will be fed into a computer that will calculate and memorize the point at which each recorded muon penetrated the surface of the pyramid. Because cavities within the pyramid offer less resistance to speeding muons than does solid stone, a greater number of muons will penetrate to the spark chamber along paths that take them through corridors and burial chambers. The computer will thus remember that certain well-defined areas of the pyramid's surface were penetrated by more recorded muons than the remaining surface area...
...heels of its earlier choice of a presidential form of government, the Assembly deliberated only three hours in its rococo meeting hall in Saigon before voting for a two-chamber legislature. The plan is for a House of Representatives, which would probably act as the major lawmaking body and include 150 members, and a Senate that is expected to become a senior advisory body, with an estimated 30 "elders." With bicameralism, said the committee chairman who recommended it, "the people will have a wide representation, and it will be difficult for the government to buy up the legislature...
...chamber of the U.N. Security Council last week, there was an unsettling sense of history repeated. The gallery was crowded, and delegates representing most of the world's nations stood in knots on the floor as British Foreign Secretary George Brown began to address the Council. His mission was the product of failure. He had come to ask the U.N. to impose mandatory economic sanctions on Rhodesia, and in the minds of many diplomats present was the ghost of the old League of Nations -which began to fall apart 30 years ago when it proved unable to enforce economic...