Word: looping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elsewhere across the land. The next serious outburst erupted in Chicago. It, too, started with an incident that might have passed unnoticed in a less volatile time. Answering what turned out to be a false alarm in Garfield Park, a Negro neighborhood about five miles west of the Loop, a speeding hook-and-ladder truck knocked down a sign pole, killing Dessie Mae Williams, 23, a Negro. It was a bad setting for such an accident. Only a month earlier, a militant civil rights group called ACT had led 60 marchers to the West Garfield firehouse to demand that...
...their dowry only by proving fertility, and such contraceptives as diaphragms and birth control pills are either too complicated or too expensive. Best hope for the future are the intrauterine devices that are simple, cheap and reliable. Most popular now in India is the "coil," a plastic, S-shaped loop inserted in the womb, which can be removed if the woman wants a child. India's first coil factory is already producing 15,000 loops a day, and government doctors travel through the countryside, explaining their use to the peasantry...
Using an ordinary wrench for such an ordinary job would throw an astronaut for a loop. Newton's third law of motion is an inexorable reminder that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, in a state of weightlessness, without gravity to anchor the man, an astronaut attempting to put together a space station while in orbit could not hope to use anything as simple as the big wrench with which a car driver changes tires. Every time he tried to exert pressure on nut or bolt, he would turn in the opposite direction. Martin...
...loops cost so little to manufacture (1? each) that the Indian government expects to give away 1,000,000 within a year, 2,000,000 a year by 1967, and 5,000,000 a year after that. While the country prepares a plant to produce its own, it will rely on 1,200,000 gift loops from the Manhattan-based Population Council. Radio broadcasts, movies and roving clinics will explain the device in thousands of villages, and the government will divide a $1-per-insertion subsidy among midwives who bring women to the clinics, doctors who insert the loops...
...elation soon turned to despair. JPL control began receiving conflicting signals about the performance of the two-track, continuous-loop tape recorder. "There is alarm in the analysis team," James announced. The signals hinted that something was wrong with the recorder's stop mechanism. Quite possibly it was not cutting off for a 24-second interval between each picture. If so, the tape would have run through its two tracks twice as fast as it should have; it would have recorded only half of the 21 pictures. The confusion was compounded when a disembodied voice over the intercom announced...