Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mormonism through the world. Then the visitors, warned not to talk or smoke within the temple, were escorted in groups through the building (cost: $1,700,000), saved their questions to be asked later. They had plenty of questions: Why was there a telephone switchboard? Why were there locker rooms and powder rooms with Queen Anne-style dressing tables? What was the green and beige drawing room, called the Celestial room, used for, and why should a church be furnished like a luxury hotel, with grey wall-to-wall carpeting, concealed lighting, air conditioning, and armchairs in fawn and black...
...hands are trained to differentiate the sound of a sub from that of a destroyer or a rowboat. But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache. Most deceptive of all for Thach's sound detectives are the pings, for all the world like those from submarines, that bounce...
...tall, blunt-featured man whose interests have long ranged farther than the laboratory, Seaborg follows Cal teams on out-of-town trips, turns up at locker-room wakes-and also fights football professionalism. In 1957 he became a leading teacher-by-television in the science series programmed by San Francisco's hot-shot educational TV station, KQED. He recently helped overhaul math and science teaching in California public schools...
...Conference championships. He studied bone mending between sessions of bone breaking, earned his M.D. in 1919, went on to do research on the effect of athletics on the heart (conclusion: no permanent damage). Wilce had an intellectual's approach to football, once experimented by painting State's locker room bright red to inspire his meat eaters...
...gentlest of Chihuahuas, lose a big poker pot holding four kings. Some ships are like that-for example, the U.S. Navy's destroyer escort Silverstein. During World War II, Silver stein* went aground on a Hawaiian coral reef, later was damaged in a typhoon. Fortnight ago, a locker of depth-charge-launcher cartridges exploded aboard the ship, injuring five crewmen...