Word: drum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York was forbidden by authorities in the former French Congo, who said that they could not guarantee his safety "because of the discontent and agitation provoked by events in Katanga." When Hammarskjold heard the news, his only reaction was to stare vacantly in the direction of an Indian pipe drum band, which was playing Over the Sea to Skye-a Scottish funeral dirge...
Atlanta's Police Chief Herbert T. Jenkins had anticipated every conceivable possibility of trouble, armed his men with a helicopter, dogs, and an armored car. As if to symbolize how most white people felt, a pretty drum majorette furiously attacked a sign-toting segregationist with her baton. The cops were so watchful that on the opening day of school they moved to arrest two loitering men who turned out to be FBI agents. The police did pull in six demonstrators, who got sentences of 30 to 60 days that were reduced, when the excitement subsided, to nothing...
...miles, made 503 speeches in whistle-stop tours through West Germany. Last week he was darting out from West Berlin on quickie one-day junkets to Hanau, Offenbach and Hamm, where audiences shouted, "Ich will Willy! [I want Willy]," the kind of cry his election experts learned how to drum up while following the Kennedy and Nixon campaign trails across the U.S. last fall...
...satire of the Mao regime is being written in China-not the likeliest of propositions-it cannot bear much resemblance to this burlesque by C. Y. Lee, the Chinese-American author of The Flower Drum Song. Lee's view is light, slight and frequently funny, but it is that of an established expatriate; it lacks the edge that defiance and fear give to a work whose author risks arrest. Cripple Mah, Lee's addlepated hero, is protected by his Schweikian stupidity from the dangers of the new people's democratic dictatorship. There is no sense of immediacy...
Most interesting improvement on Transit IVA is its nuclear power supply, built for the Atomic Energy Commission by the Martin Co. Tucked under Transit's big drum is a 5-in. white metal ball surrounding a pellet of plutonium 238*, a rare isotope of plutonium that gives off enough alpha radiation to heat itself as it decays. Thermocouples transform this ever-renewed heat into 2.7 watts of electricity for two of Transit's four transmitters. The little generator weighs only 4.6 lbs., but its plutonium fuel, with a half life of 90 years, is expected to supply power...