Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week United Air Lines announced that it had tested a microwave radar, found it the best yet for commercial planes. Company engineers installed "C-band" (5.5 cm.) radar in a DC-3 (dubbed ' Sir Echo"). Unlike lower and higher frequency radar, the C-band radar scanned both a storm and the weather on the other side, enabled the pilot to spot and follow the path of least turbulence through the storm, or to detour conveniently if his route was clearly blocked. One important safety feature: the pilot, watching his scope, could see not only storms but the mountains...
...Williams, Producer Richard (The Big Clock) Maibaum, Actor Macdonald Carey and Stage Designer Lemuel (Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate) Ayers. Onto the prairie, meanwhile, came poets, novelists and painters (among them: Iowa-born Grant Wood). The university began a representative collection of modern American canvases, and its auditoriums began to echo with new music. Largely through the influence of Psychologist Carl Seashore, S.U.I, took on the arts wholesale, and with typical Midwestern hospitality proceeded to make them right at home. It was one of the first universities to hit upon the idea that a novel, poem or painting could...
Koussevitzky Plays the Double Bass (Victor). Out of the wayward past (1929) comes the echo of Conductor Koussevitzky's first love, the bull fiddle. In these six pieces (three of them his own compositions), the instrument sounds like a husky cello, dark and sentimental, and it moves like a fat man on a dance floor, bulky but often surprisingly graceful...
Last week when Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden returned from Geneva, no crowd milled in front of No. 10 Downing Street. Before going off to a welcome at Buckingham Palace, Anthony Eden met the press, and there was an unhappy echo of history in what he said. The Geneva Conference had averted the danger of a third world war. "I have little doubt," he added, "that the settlement will be beneficial for the outlook of peace in the world...
...World Council, Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, replied: "The decision . . . will make a healthy impression in other countries .. ." Best answer to Representative Bentley's alarms (which found little echo in the U.S.) was the State Department's statement that "this small group" was not going to subvert America, while a look at U.S. life might actually inspire them to take a stiffer stand against "ruthless pressure" from Communism at home...