Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infant at the baby-food section. Then they synchronized their watches and headed for the store, took their positions, and waited impatiently for H-hour. At last it came: sweeping through their assigned sectors, the 40 people began sticking small cards in the merchandise-on top of a ham, beneath cans of dog food, behind jars of borsch. They worked swiftly, disappeared leaving only the cards, which read: THIS HAS BEEN INSPECTED FOR YOUR TABLE BY A REAL GOOD COMMUNIST...
...Ham Founder. The radio window was accidentally opened for the first time in 1932 by Karl Jansky. a Bell Telephone physicist who was studying the crackling static that can be so annoying in radio communications. During quiet periods, when no lightning flashes were disturbing the atmosphere, a faint hiss still sounded in his receiving apparatus. It seemed to rise and fall in strength as the earth turned. Jansky studied the hiss more carefully and found that its maximum strength came four minutes earlier each day. The time interval seemed significant...
Jansky's work was wellpublicized, but it was done during the great Depression, when little cash was available to encourage scientific enterprise. Only a single radio ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., followed Jansky's lead. Working alone, Reber built a dish antenna 31 ft. in diameter in his own backyard. With it he made the extraordinary discovery that the sky is full of radio stars that have nothing to do with ordinary stars. Reber had opened wide the radio window on the sky. His crude radio telescope, the world's first. now stands at the entrance...
...last week in the Philadelphia area, where a group of rank-and-file rebels sought to win a National Labor Relations Board election, take 8,000 members of Local 107 and three other locals out of the Teamsters and into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. The Hoffa forces were headed by ham-fisted Raymond Cohen, 55, for eight years 107s secretary-treasurer. Last August, it took more than 100 Philadelphia police and firemen to break up a pitched battle between the rebels and Cohen's followers. Since then, rebel leaders say their cars have been bombed and shot at; just before...
...until he spent a two-month leave in Moscow that Colonel Barmitage, lean, monocled chief of intelligence, made the astute decision to have him shadowed. Even then, 28 fulltime shadows and twelve auxiliaries dogged his footsteps for a year before Wraxton was caught red-handed with 185 secrets, a ham roll and the Defense Minister's cigarette case...