Word: drills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seattle, Spokane, Salt Lake City, Alaska, Chicago, Milwaukee and New York. Last weekend, after Sidey watched Humphrey in action at a major Democratic shindig in Washington, Candidate Humphrey drew aside Sidey's wife Anne, confided: "Your husband has been probing me like a dentist's deep drill...
...languages, the 50% lingo being English. His cosmetics, says he grandly, are drawn from history, e.g., General Potemkin's letters taught him the oils used by Catherine the Great (Siberian fir needles, hay, geranium and lilac), and Anne Marie's exercises are supposedly based on a calisthenics drill devised by Leonardo da Vinci. "It is not a lesser masterpiece than his Mona Lisa...
...surgeon approached the patient's head with a large, shining power tool. On the wall a sign warned others: PLEASE OBSERVE SILENCE. THE PATIENT IS AWAKE. "Maggie, do you hear me?" said the doctor. "We're going in." The drill hummed. Even a few men in the TV camera crew instinctively turned away...
Electron Cutter. United Aircraft Corp.'s Hamilton Standard Division (propellers) will put on the market a machine, developed by West Germany's Carl Zeiss Foundation, that uses electron beams to weld, mill and drill hair-fine holes in the hardest known materials, e.g., quartz, tungsten, zirconium. An electron gun fires beams that boost the temperature on the surface of the material up to 11,000° F. ; it can cut 100 holes in a straight line across a pinhead, drill a sapphire watch bearing in six seconds, weld a tough nu clear reactor core. Lease price: about...
...Villas province's 30,000-acre Washington Sugar Central, the entire destinies of 4,000 co-op farmers are controlled by a 23-year-old ex-schoolteacher; so far, he has concentrated on sewing lessons for young girls, close-order drill for a "sanitation corps" of boys. The practical effect, says a U.S. plantation foreman, has been to "set Cuban agriculture back five years." In Oriente province INRA plowed up 20,000 acres of ranch land for truck farming-then learned that there was no way to irrigate the parched land...