Word: levers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lure to Japan is trade-described in the oft-repeated phrase "600 million new customers." From the past record, the Japanese should know that Red China is interested in politics, not business. Two years ago, Peking unsuccessfully tried to use a $196 million trade pact as a lever to secure diplomatic recognition. When the Japanese government stubbornly withheld recognition, the Chinese peevishly broke the pact and flooded Japan's Asian markets with cut-rate textiles and consumer goods. But the Chinese bait is nonetheless as enticing to many Japanese as is the Russian talk of the offshore islands...
Chimp No. 65 had been trained at Holloman to work a simple system of lights and levers. He had learned that if he pushed one lever at least once every 20 seconds, he would avoid a slight electric shock in the pad of one of his feet. When a blue light flashed, he knew that if he pushed another lever in less than five seconds, he would also avoid a shock. His performance would show how much his psychology was affected by the stresses and strains of space flight...
Defeated VIP. A typical task taught to chimponauts requires them to watch three shapes flashed on a screen and decide by pushing the proper lever which shape is not like either of the others. By doing this correctly 18 times, a chimp earns a banana-flavored food pellet. Some of them become amazingly skillful. The champion so far is a chimp that worked the levers 7,000 times in 70 minutes with only 32 errors. A human VIP visiting the lab rashly tried the same task and made a much lower score...
...fans a frequent crick in the neck. The new design by Soapman- Turned-Architect Charles Luckman will achieve its pillarless view by what he calls "the first use in such a large structure of a compression ring"-steel cables imbedded in concrete that support the roof. Onetime president of Lever Brothers Co. (1946-50), Luckman now employs 336 planners, architects and engineers, currently has $202 million worth of construction work under way from missile research centers to Los Angeles' new jet airport terminal...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. will pay thousands of members $25 each to take off from their jobs and flush out the vote in Michigan. The formula: canvass Democratic areas block by block, drive voters to the polls, pass out "idiot sheets" that tell how and for whom to pull the lever. When need be, the unionists also baby...