Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Home! Home! Home!" cried the third Lord Home, trying to rally his Scots against the English soldiery by shouting the family name at Flodden Field in 1513. In the heat of battle, the clansmen misunderstood and-so the story goes-took off for home. Ever since, lest another such disaster befall, the family has pronounced the name "Hume...
What the Eye Sees. In sum, television was at its best covering the few worthwhile speeches in the heat of their delivery; the faces of big and little politicians with their masks down; and some great human interest moments, as when Senator Barry Goldwater's teen-age daughter leaned out of her box during the floor demonstration for her father and literally wept into an NBC microphone. But the networks' competitive zeal, their cameras poking at every face and their microphones inching up to every mouth, reached a point of diminishing returns. Too often TV reporters were...
...missile's propellant was painstakingly perfected as the chemistry of high-energy fuels was tested at half a dozen laboratories. At one point, Raborn's talent scouts had to track down an expatriate German, descendant of a long line of armor makers, who could work the heat-resistant beryllium parts for the missile's control vanes. They found him in Ohio, in a backyard auto garage...
...that something like them may have been a step in nature's progression toward life. If amino acids were continually raining down from the sky, it is natural to suppose that considerable quantities of them accumulated on fairly hot parts of the young earth's surface. The heat made them react, as in Dr. Fox's lab; after they had turned into proteinlike molecules, heavy rain dissolved them and washed them into the sea. There they cooled and formed microspheres, each of which packaged together a great assortment of proteins and similar chemicals. This process may have...
Nothing new in sight till September. In the meantime, the fittest shows survive both heat and familiarity. Among the musicals still leg-kicking: West Side Story, about street-fighting Montagues and Capulets; Fiorello!, a lively reminiscence of the Little Flower; and Bye Bye Birdie, a romp about a rock-'n'-roll groaner. On the dramatic side, there are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic...