Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris last week, while a dozen ill-dressed followers waited anxiously in the hall outside his chamber, Judge André Laly tried to conduct a pretrial interrogation of the princess. What documents did she have to prove the existence of the inheritance? "I don't have any official documents," she explained. "That's why I founded the union-to find the documents." The weary judge concluded that the next step in the case would be a psychiatric examination. But this was not likely to discourage all the other Mallets. One scholar has concluded that the real Jean-Pierre...
...Italian politics, Deputies who vote against their own party under the cover of a secret ballot are called snipers -i franchi tiratori. Last week, on an innocuous school-aid bill, the snipers struck. Near midnight, in an emptying chamber, they routed the Center-Left coalition government of Premier Aldo Moro by a vote of 250 to 221. Next day Moro submitted his resignation to President Giuseppe Saragat, who, after conferring with other Italian political leaders, is likely to invite Moro back to start all over again...
...University of Minnesota Hospitals reported the first promising results (TIME, May 18, 1962). Freezing the stomach wall for a short time, Dr. Wangensteen explained, knocks out much of its capacity for producing hydrochloric acid, thus reducing the amount of the corrosive juice that flows into the duodenum, the next chamber down the digestive tract. If acid production should bounce back, he said, the stomach could safely be refrozen. (Whether the technique should be used for gastric ulcers, in the stomach itself, is a separate, unresolved question...
...health, after 32 years in of fice. "Little Harry," as he is called back home in Winchester, where he is editor of the Winchester Star (circ. 13,-000), took his father's old front-row desk for the first day, will eventually move to a back-of-the-chamber spot reserved for new members. On the House side, two new members also took the oath: Ohio Republican Clarence J. Brown Jr., 38, an Urbana publisher and radio executive, and California Democrat Thomas Rees, 40, a Los Angeles farm-machinery exporter...
...explosion was set off, it is now believed, when highly flammable liquid hydrogen broke through beryllium windows on the CEA bubble chamber, which was being filled for the first time. The CEA has decided since the explosion to abandon the apparatus and bubble chamber research...