Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shade trees, bright sunlight flashing in rapid intervals through the gaps between the ties of the railroad or the leaves of the trees creates an intolerable succession of bright and dark reflections. When I wrote to Detroit about this, the manufacturer replied ". . . We hesitate using darker colors on the dash because they do not complement the decor of the other trim...
Engineers have known for years that reflections inside the windshield could be cut by a dark-painted dash. But Detroit's executive-level decision (on record at a 1955 congressional hearing) was to keep the shinier surfaces and bright colors they claimed were "acceptable to the people...
Across 36 million miles of space, the incredibly intricate instruments of Mariner II flashed their coded reports. But what had the spacecraft seen and recorded in its triumphant dash past Venus (TIME, Dec. 21)? Though the answers will be as many and varied as Mariner's many experimental observations, the first data deciphered by scientists seemed disappointingly empty: as far as Mariner's magnetometer could tell, Venus has no magnetic field. But even this negative finding has fascinating implications. It hints that Venus may be a more attractive hunk of space real estate than scientists have supposed...
...ninth pro fight. Stan's way led to top marks at mostly Negro David Starr Jordan High School, thence to a full athletic scholarship at Whittier College, where his size (6 ft. 4 in.. 204 Ib.) and blinding speed (9.8 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) made him an All-America end in small-college football. He also kept A-minus grades in his political science major, was student-body president. Turning down pro football offers, Stan will pursue Oxford's famed "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), aims to become a lawyer. He is Whittier's first...
...conscious" Communist "agent," regard Pegler as a major journalistic haul. "Mr. Pegler will not be restrained in any way." said American Opinion Managing Editor Scott Stanley Jr. And Columnist Pegler, who in his days of relative silence on the desert has found little better to do than dash off a piece on pugilism for Show magazine, bared his fangs in anticipation. "I'm not a member of the Birch Society," said he, "but I have seen nothing in their program or their policies to offend me." So saying, Columnist Pegler dispatched to his new employer an obituary on Eleanor...