Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Roller. At Harrah's, outside consultants are called in to study specialized problems such as transportation; a talent scout combs the show business world for new acts. (Harrah's has long since learned to vary its shows by the clock-organ music from 6 a.m. until noon, building to wild, brassy jazz when things heat up after midnight.) All Bill Harrah's dealers, half of whom are women, are trained in his own school. None of them are allowed to smoke, drink or chew gum on duty; careful research has even chosen what Harrah considers...
...Berlin? The question agitates the free world, and last week an NBC news team headed by Commentator Chet Huntley addressed itself to the difficult task of supplying an answer. Their reply, presented in prime evening time (8 o'clock, E.S.T.), was television journalism at its best-the sights and sounds and sad, bitter memories of a divided city, caught by an accident of history far on the wrong side of the Communist border...
...Clues. Dr. Segal first discovered that slugs have an extraordinary biological clock that runs true for a whole year. Wild slugs regularly start laying eggs about the first of August. By 1958 Dr. Segal had a whole second generation of slugs that had no experience of any environment but the laboratory. He kept all his slugs under artificial light for eleven hours a day and controlled the temperature and humidity. Thus they were cut off from any clues they normally might get from nature-changes of air temperature or length of the day. But the laboratory-bred slugs produced their...
...Segal does not know how the slugs' clock works, is trying to find out if slugs can adapt their clocks to suit new artificial environments. He is also fascinated by another talent of slugs. When the temperature of their environment rises, their heartbeat, breathing and metabolism all increase. But a speeded-up slug kept at high temperatures does not burn out. After a while, it resumes a normal, sluglike pace. Some regulating system has adjusted its behavior to the new high temperature...
...Bowditch swept the singles field without losing a set, and Donald Dell's alarm clock didn't go off, as the varsity tennis team put on a tremendous effort and dethroned favored Yale in the New England Intercollegiate tournament at M.I.T. this weekend...