Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manifested itself in everything from his opposition to a 1946 U.S. loan to Britain ("We have sold the Empire for a trifling sum") to wild editorial outcries at the Ford Motor Co.'s recent bid to buy 100% control of its British subsidiary ("Why should all the profits flow across the Atlantic?"). Last week, newly returned from an 18-month U.S. sojourn, the Express's "This Is America" columnist, personable Peter Chambers, 36, unstoppered a report that read startlingly like a chapter-and-verse rebuttal of his paper's-and his boss's-views...
...planters in Britain's steamy Latin American colony of British Guiana, one of life's great irritations has long been the weeds and grass that flourish in Guiana's irrigation and drainage ditches. Until last year, to keep the weeds from choking off the water flow, the ditches had to be cleared expensively by hand labor or chemical herbicide. Then William H. L. Allsopp, a British zoologist at the government fisheries laboratory in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, took a fresh look at the weed problem. In Britain's Nature, Allsopp unveils his novel...
...tiny batteries, the artificial larynx is pressed against the flesh of the throat, transmits vibrations into the lower end of the vocal tract. These vibrations can be converted into voiced sounds of speech in a normal manner-by use of the tongue, teeth and lips. But because no flow of air is required, the user can speak with the electronic larynx while exhaling, inhaling or holding his breath. The gadget comes in two models-low-pitched for men, higher-pitched for women...
...Times is easily astonished. It is difficult to guess what they expected beyond the easy, frothy flow of cliches that must always accompany such projects. If businessmen, professional men, and scholars do not have some well-defined purpose to fulfill (as do, say, the members of the American Assembly in their conferences at Arden House), they are useless as an aggregate of truth-seekers. The committee that Henry Wriston has chaired for the last year had no such purpose; it was a committee on goals that had the distasteful task of operating completely without them...
Like a latter-day Mongol horde, the fighting men who serve the U.S. around the world are followed by their wives and children-484,000 of them in 1060. In a drastic effort to reduce the flow of dollars abroad, President Eisenhower ordered the number of U.S. military dependents overseas reduced to 200,000 within two years. This may cut the U.S. payments deficit as, much as $500 million a year, counting what the Pentagon"spends on dependents and the $1,000 a year each dependent is estimated to spend abroad. But last week, at one of the lushest dependent...