Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Invented by Emmanuel Mitchell Trikilis, a self-taught Columbus engineer, the "Sentronic" book detector works on the ancient principle of magnetism. A sliver of magnetized metal is hidden somewhere in a book's spine or binding, and the librarian who checks the book out simply demagnetizes the metal insert by passing the book through a coil carrying an electric current. If a thief bolts for the exit instead of the check-out desk, the magnetized metal inside his book is detected by an instrument that trips a solenoid hidden at the door; the turnstile is automatically locked...
...American people and say, 'Let us continue.'" In Lincoln, Neb., he told an airport crowd about what might happen if Johnson wins the election: "I suppose we will have George Meany as head of the Small Business Administration and Bobby Baker as Secretary of the Treasury." In Columbus, he struck out at possible Democratic dirty work at the polls: "Maybe we're being optimistic, but we hope that when votes are cast in Chicago, they'll be counted. And maybe we're being too optimistic-but maybe they'll be counted in Texas...
Learning related facts, pupils are introduced to maps in kindergarten instead of waiting until the fourth grade to grasp what the whole earth looks like. They are told that Norseman Leif Ericson discovered the New World, not Columbus. For years, social-studies courses pounded away on the virtue of thrift, but the council program realistically recognizes that students know their own families rely heavily on credit, and teaches that both saving and spending have a place in the usual household economy...
...home in St. Louis following his collapse from exhaustion at a Cardinals-Braves game brought on by his coast-to-coast labors as director of the nation's physical fitness program; Henry A. Barnes, 57, New York City's controversial traffic czar, in Manhattan's Columbus Hospital with his second heart attack in eight days (fourth in a year), smitten while attending the opening of a police academy. Cracked Barnes, after cops gave him emergency oxygen: "I'm lying at death's door, but they're trying to pull me through-but they...
...blend of abstraction and figuration. Vaquero Turcios fears gimmickry in the Spanish preoccupation with paint as material rather than illusion. But he himself uses a latex and plastic mixture on pressed wood, or even plaster, as in the sails of his Homage to Rodrigo de Triana, the sailor on Columbus' Pinta who first saw the New World...