Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circus held him for only half a year; then his Wanderjahre began for fair. Naples, Tunis, Casablanca, Paris, Rotterdam, Hamburg-he hit them all, playing a guitar and singing the hillbilly songs he had learned from his U.S. Army buddies. Between 1951 and 1953 he rode a Finnish tanker from Odessa to Mexico to the Far East. Once, he remembers, his ship got to the U.S. where he won an amateur-night contest singing Spanish songs he had learned in Mexico. "I sang Mexican songs in the U.S. and hillbilly songs in Mexico," he explains. "No use pushing your luck...
...hour of 2 p.m. universal time* approached, Venus looked like a yellow half-moon against the sky background, and Regulus, greenish in hue, was approaching the rim of its disk. The occultation was to start at 2:21. The minutes passed; the star edged closer to the invisible rim of the planet. "No change, no change," chanted Hynek into a tape recorder while an assistant read off the time. "Gosh, there-it seemed to go. It's definitely going, going. It's gone." Eleven minutes and 4.8 seconds later, Regulus reappeared from behind the bright edge of Venus...
...packed with 150,000 pilgrims from all over India. Some had come crammed into special trains from Calcutta, 265 miles to the north; wide-eyed peasants had come on foot, herded by professional guides. There were women with babies, young students of Yoga, families of dark, half-naked tribesmen from the jungles. Medical officers manned every road, armed with hypodermic needles to head off the cholera which used to sweep through Puri after the festival. Holy men, their naked | bodies smeared with ashes, and the "walking dead" (lepers and the congenitally deformed) begged their way through the crowds. Along...
...prodigious worker who still puts in twelve hours a day at the job of keeping tabs on every aspect of his business. He gets up at 5 or 6 a.m., jots down ideas and reads newspapers and magazines before arriving at the office around 8. He has half a day's work done before most of his executives come in, sometimes embarrasses them by assuming that everyone keeps his hours and calling their offices before they arrive. He divides his time between his Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan and Pittsburgh (where his living quarters are right in the Mellon...
...basic oxygen process, developed in Austria seven years ago, in which a jet of pure oxygen is blown into molten steel held in a special converter. The oxygen accelerates the refining action of the metal, burns out impurities, uses less scrap metal. An oxygen vessel costs only about one-half of open-hearth facilities, turns out steel ingots in 35 minutes, v. ten to twelve hours for the open-hearth process. Kaiser Steel (which holds the U.S. rights to the patent for the process), Jones & Laughlin, McLouth Steel and Acme Steel have installed direct-oxygen furnaces. U.S. Steel...