Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city machine this year. Reformer Merriam, with great public show, avoided voting in the 1954 elections so that he would be eligible to run for mayor as a Republican in 1955. He has the support of Republican County Chairman Ed Moore and the tacit approval of Governor William G...
Before long, Gardy Schmidt had one highly placed U.S. officer frisking about in hot-breathed deference to her wants. The officer, identified with embarrassed reticence only as "a high official in a highly sensitive position," got Gardy a job in the Order of Battle Section, the G-2 branch which keeps tabs on Soviet troops and military operations in East Germany...
...Wilford G. Crane, a mere "10-watt amplifier bank clerk," once brilliantly undermined a wealthy "hifi bourgeois" with a gift of a single 78-r.p.m. disk. " 'It's Dajos Bela and Salon Orchestra, been looking for it for years. The way he plays these Hungarian Dances is beyond comparison. Finally found it on my last trip to Chicago. Some allowances you may have to make, but for 1933, don't you think the sound is spacious and resonant, eh?' Of course, Crane had actually found the disk in the attic . . . and had then rubbed dust...
...Williams and D. A. Cusano of General Electric's Research Laboratory demonstrated the first major step toward licking the problem. On a round screen four inches in diameter they projected in ultraviolet light the image of an ordinary photographic slide. It made a yellowish picture (of three G. E. scientists) that was almost too dim to be seen. Then Cusano fed electric current to terminals on the screen. As the voltage gradually increased, the image brightened until it was clearly visible. No contrast or detail of the original was lost. The strength of the light falling on the screen...
...Twixt the Cup & the Lip. In Gütersloh, Germany, police arrested Friedelina Kleine-Beek after she followed her husband to a local tavern, watched through the window as he raised a glass of beer to his lips, then carefully aimed a rifle and fired, shattering the glass, but leaving her husband unscathed...