Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Department of Justice last week moved against the U.S. brass industry. In Hartford, Conn., a federal grand jury handed down indictments against eleven major brass producers and seven of their officers for conspiring to fix prices on pipe and tubing sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority and municipal governments...
...drank a quart of brandy a day. It was strict Prohibition, and I never had al lowed any in the mansion. I called up a fellow who I thought might be able to get it and said, 'John, I'm in a hell of a fix. I need you to deliver a quart of brandy to the kitchen of the Governor's mansion every day this week.' "Churchill had some fellow with him named Lord so-and-so, and the Lord had a girl in San Francisco and was always calling her up the whole time...
...argon isotope dating system, were able to show that flat-browed Zinjanthropus lived some 1,750,000 years back in prehistory, the oldest manlike animal yet found. By measuring the amount of potassium 40 and its decay product, argon 40, in a digger's find, scientists conceivably can fix an object's age at 50 million years, with a probable error of less than 2%. The radioactive carbon dating system, for which Dr. Willard Libby won a Nobel Prize in 1960, reaches back for only 50,000 to 60,000 years...
...chivalry in which the most ignoble action could be described as a deed of honor. Etiquette was rigorous, and manners so sacred that a noble Alphonse and a lordly Gaston could spend hours politely protesting that the other should go first. Though convulsed with change, society tried to fix every person in his proper "estate" or "order," down to the "four estates of body and mouth"-the breadmakers, cupbearers, carvers and cooks. Everything was ritual, and as can be seen in the little drawing of Dutch High Society (see color), fashion has rarely demanded such exaggerated sleeves or sweeping trains...
...sensitive, able to detect the tiny changes of direction that are all-important in missile and space work. Their lack of mechanical moving parts should free them from nearly all tendency to drift, making them valuable for guiding nuclear submarines, which cruise under water for weeks without getting a fix on the sun or the stars. They should be cheaper too. There are elegant instruments on the market, says Minneman, that cost $20,000. He is sure that the proton gyro, made .mostly of coils and water, can be produced for under...