Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Society." To support their hunches. Drake and other radio astronomers cite a closely reasoned paper published this fall by Cornell Physicists Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi, who postulate an advanced society not far away (as space distances go) that has long been "expecting the development of science near the sun." Wrote Morrison and Cocconi : "We shall assume that long ago they established a channel of communication that would one day become known to us, and that they look forward patiently to the answering signals from the sun which would make known to them that a new society has entered...
Phoenix (pop. 370,000) has long smarted under the reproach that it was the largest U.S. city without an art museum of its own. "If you lived in Phoenix and you wanted to go to an art museum with a broad coverage of art," Actor-Collector Vincent Price once pointed out, "you'd have to go as far west as Los Angeles, as far south as Mexico City, as far east as Denver and as far north as Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan." Last week Phoenix proudly opened its brand-new, $500,000 Museum of Art, housing a collection...
Buttons & Pearls. Pearlers have long known about Australia's big shells. Before World War II, Japanese divers worked the beds, and the export of pearl shells reached $1,000,000 annually. The war wrecked the industry. Though the Australian government tried promoting the shells, the diving is dangerous (five divers were killed in one null bed alone last year), and cheap plastic buttons have all but ruined the market for those of expensive (up to $2 for a set of six nickel-sized buttons) mother-of-pearl...
...down crews would add to railway accidents. (Actually, states with such rules have no better accident records than states without them.) The unions have come to regard featherbedding as a sort of fringe benefit, making up for the fact that railroad men have to sit by the phone for long hours without pay while waiting for a call to work, get no premium pay for nights, Sundays or holiday work, are not paid for away-from-home terminal expenses. Furthermore, despite all the complaints about featherbedding, 800 to 1,000 railroad workers, on an average, lose their jobs every week...
...point of view-is that the practice is killing off business just when struggling U.S. roads need every dollar they can get. Booms Daniel Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The central issue is simply whether this industry or any industry so beset by rising competition can long survive under work rules that exact millions in pay for work not done or needed...