Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic element in the cult of The Girl, thinks Cox, is that "Protestantism has almost completely failed to notice it, while Roman Catholics have at least given some evidence of sensing its significance...
Strontium 90 is the notorious element in fallout that masquerades as calcium and lodges in human bones. But it is plentiful in the byproducts of plutonium manufacture, and the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, taking careful precautions, decided to use it. It was converted into strontium titanate, which is chemically inert and virtually insoluble, then formed into eleven pellets and welded into a three-layer jacket. All this had to be done by remote control from behind thick radiation shields-or the operators would not have lived to do more work...
...Hancock, the director, has, if anything, intensified this somewhat incongruous vaudeville element (wholly serived. I deem, from American productions of Die Dreigroschenoper): marquee lights glitter from the proscenium, news of each scene is projected on a screen from slides (a Ia Chaplin), and poor old Maggie Ziskind, cast as the Widow Leosadia Begbick, a saloon-keeping trollop, has to bundle up in ratty Lotte Lenya togs and belt out a couple of those sour songs that were Mrs. Weill's stock-in-trade. (The words for most of these songs are by Mr. Bentley, the music--as Wall...
What happened next added a new element of mystery to the recovery operation. "When we were about ten to 20 feet away from the capsule," reported Pilot James Lewis, "we observed the hatch being blown. We saw the astronaut egress from the space capsule and go into the water immediately after the hatch was blown...
Died. Dr. Lee de Forest, 87, indefatigable father of modern electronics, whose invention of the three-element vacuum tube in 1906 led to the development of radio, long-distance telephony, sound movies and television; following a long illness; in Hollywood. In the process of piling up more than 300 patents, the Yale-educated minister's son lost four fortunes, almost came to regret the product of his genius. Wrote he to the National Association of Broadcasters on the 40th anniversary of his audion tube: "You have debased [ my] child . . . You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence . . . a stench...