Word: hit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Filling In. In Montreal, Que., charged with hit-and-run, Felix Rosa won acquittal when he explained that he left the accident only to get a snack in a restaurant while he waited for the police...
...pictures of U.S. life (e.g., seven cities, seven college campuses, etc., accompanied by Russian commentary and musical score). This unique process was invented by Designer Charles Eames. Watching the thousands of colorful glimpses of the U.S. and its people, the Russians were entranced, and the slides are the smash hit of the fair. Another big attraction: IBM's RAMAC 305, an electronic brain that produces written answers in flawless Russian to any of 4.000 questions about...
When Turkey's former President Ismet Inonu hit the hustings last May as leader of the opposition Republican People's Party, the Democratic government of Premier Menderes used tear gas to disperse the crowds that gathered to hear Inonu, and stood by while bands of toughs pelted the 75-year-old national hero with stones (TIME, May 11). Inonu's tour was part of a vigorous campaign by the Republicans for 21 vacant seats in the National Assembly scheduled to be filled in byelections this fall. Even if the Republicans won all 21 seats, they would...
Lambda particles are short-lived packets of matter created when high-energy protons hit protons at rest. Since each particle is presumed to have its "anti" counterpart, scientists have long been looking for anti-lambda. Faint traces of the elusive particle showed last year on photographic plates exposed to the 6 billion-volt Berkeley Bevatron, but the plates were too small to tell much of the anti-lambda story...
...Crisis. The effects of the strike landed nowhere with more personal impact than on the Steelworkers themselves, tramping the streets just as it was announced that the nation's employment had hit an alltime high. Many workers faced out-and-out hardship, but most had a nest egg and meat in the freezer. Workers got one to two weeks' pay before the mills closed (average: $125 a week before deductions ). still have another two to three weeks' vacation wages coming. Dave McDonald halted the pay of 1,000 union officers, including his own $50,000 a year...