Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midweek A.M.A.'s board of trustees made a complete about-face, announced that it had decided to keep Whitaker & Baxter for another year. Puzzled delegates were given no insight into inner-circle reasoning. Whitaker "guessed" that the board wanted to keep the fire department alerted "in case the fire breaks out again." Still unsettled: Whitaker & Baxter's new salary. One thing settled: they will be free to take other clients, serve A.M.A. chiefly as consultants...
...loosen up. Pacing up & down the room, throwing in a quick skip-step before each turn, he began kidding with Papa and Manager George Gainford, was soon talking baseball and skipping an imaginary rope. By the time he walked down the aisle to the ring, jogging rhythmically to some inner melody, the atmosphere of tension and strained horseplay was gone. From the instant the bell sounded, Sugar Ray Robinson was the master craftsman who knew just what he was doing-the best fighter, pound for pound, in the world...
Thus Don G. Mitchell, 46-year-old president of Sylvania Electric Products Inc., showed off "Electro-Luminescence," a radically new method of producing light entirely different from either incandescent or fluorescent light. Instead of filaments or gases, the source of the light is a chemical sprayed on the inner side of the glass. When "excited" by an electric current, the chemical becomes luminescent. It is the longest-lasting source of light yet made, said Mitchell. "For the first time, lighting can now be literally built into the architecture of a room in large, glowing panels...
...Yadin) of the jeep patrol as a man no less fundamentally decent than the other three, implies strongly that the West's quarrel is not with the Russian people but with their rulers. Indeed, because the Russian M.P. is the creature of an inflexible system, he feels an inner conflict that makes him the most striking of the four and, in a sense, the most sympathetic...
Anyone who wants to get at the cyclotron for minor repairs can go through a small seven-ton door in the inner wall. For a major overhaul the maintenance crew can open the two 110 ton doors at the West end or the two 60 ton ones at the East end. These slabs are pushed back and forth on roller tracks by a large crane hitched to the ceiling. The total shielding around the machine amounts to some 600 cubic yards of concrete and 34,000 pounds of structural steel...