Word: locke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Publisher Cabot (of the Back Bay Cabots), who first visited Taos as a member of a Harvard geological expedition in 1932 and soon took a summer place there, bought El Creeps nine years ago last month. Last year he moved it lock, stock and flatbed press into a pink adobe hacienda. The new location greatly improved working conditions: staffers who like drinks served with the news can walk through a door from the city room directly into a bar presided over by the mayor of Taos...
...Force contract, dodged around this difficulty by altering the quality of the signal itself. Details of the alteration are still secret. But in effect the scientists added an ingredient to the signal that can be readily identified against background interference picked up by their receiver. "It's a lock and key system," explains Dr. John H. Bose of Columbia's Electronics Research Laboratories. "We know what's locked up in the signal, and our receiver...
...never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that once belonged-lock, stock and cash drawer-to Dave Beck...
Afternoon of a Fan. To opera buffs, Saturday afternoon is a dedicated time. Many communities have formed opera luncheons and listening clubs in homes, music stores, auditoriums and churches across the U.S. More solitary listeners pull shades, take the phone off the hook and even lock their doors. Wrote one fan, too old to attend the Met any more: "On Saturdays, I get my black velvet dress out of its box. And I dress my hair and put a fresh flower in a vase beside me. After all, I am to spend the afternoon with dukes and duchesses...
...scholars carried on as best they could. This week came news that an important new find has been made in an eleventh cave. Because of the political situation and payment difficulties, the Jordan government has so far kept its contents under lock and key, but scholars have been permitted a preliminary peek. On the basis of this examination, they tentatively identified the Cave II scrolls as the Biblical 'Psalms and Leviticus, an apocalyptic description of the New Jerusalem, and a targum (i.e., a translation of a Hebrew text into Aramaic, the colloquial language of Christ's time...