Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second-in-command post of Deputy Secretary went slight (5 ft. 9 in., 140 Ibs.), mild-mannered Donald A. Quarles, 62. In 1955 Industrial Scientist Quarles (Western Electric, Bell Labs) succeeded the late Harold Talbott as Air Force Secretary, impressed Wilson and Washington by quietly, capably directing a crack Air Force. At Defense, Quarles succeeds Reuben Robertson Jr., who is leaving after two years to return to private industry (Champion Paper & Fibre...
...earth's most active, is the San Andreas Fault, which begins in northern California, slashes south along the coastal mountains, and curves eastward down toward Mexico. The west side of San Andreas arcs steadily northward nearly 2 in. a year, grinding the two faces of the great crack in the earth's surface layers until something has to give and let the faces slip into realignment. The crumbling rock where the slip starts is the epicenter of an earthquake of the kind that often jiggles San Francisco, and once (in 1906) touched off a fire that nearly destroyed...
...5printing the last quarter at Melbourne 0:58.4, Australia's Mervyn Lincoln flashed through the mile in 3:59, one second off the world record held by Countryman John Landy, became the eleventh runner in history to crack the rapidly disintegrating four-minute-mile barrier...
...Crack in the Picture Window," a small, sourly humorous book, John Keats examines the more serious implications of these bulldozer-spawned eyesores...
What, if any, are the answers to these problems? "The Crack in the Picture Window" suggests a few steps which might abate the horror slightly, but it is by no means an optimistic book. Rather, it is alarming and surprising enough to deserve some thoughtful attention...