Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps, no rifle volley. After a brief and simple service, the coffin flag was folded into a triangle for presentation to Ethel, and the band played America the Beautiful...
...Washington, D.C. The computer had the answer. When Reba Gardner called the broker selling it, he exclaimed, "My God, Reba. I just got that house a few minutes ago." An appointment was made for Major Dubois to see the house first thing the next morning. By 11 o'clock the deal was closed...
...relativity? Last summer, when the regularly beeping signals of pulsars were first detected coming from outer space, Queens College Physicist Banesh Hoffmann figured that they might supply an answer. Though their source was unknown, the precisely spaced radio pulses coming from light-years away seemed to be the distant clock needed to measure earth time. In a letter to Nature, Hoffmann suggested that the pulse rate of pulsars be taken regularly from January through June, when the earth is farthest from the sun and slows to its minimum speed. Each time the pulse rate could be compared with an accurate...
Match with Cesium. If earth time does indeed slow down relative to the pulsar clock in January, and speed up correspondingly in June, the pulsar signals (which have blipped at a constant frequency since they were discovered) would appear to increase their repetition rates as earth clocks slowed down and decrease them as earth time speeded up. Hoffmann's plan was immediately snapped up by Dror Sadeh, a Tel Aviv University physicist currently attached to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory at Washington...
...days on end, TIME'S office was manned round the clock. As Paris shut down and communications came to a halt, press packets had to be driven to Brussels, four hours away, for relay to New York. But when gasoline reserves dwindled, even that link with the outside world became tenuous. Office supplies began to run short, and just getting to work became something of an adventure. The red-rimmed eyes of the reporters filing for this week's cover story suggested sleepless nights, long hours spent crisscrossing a barricaded city, and the irritating effects of tear...