Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only four months ago, ruling on the same set of facts, Judge Youngdahl refused defendant Peck's motion for acquittal. Speedily convicted by a federal jury in Washington, Peck was fined $500 and got a suspended sentence of 30 days. But while his appeal was pending, the Supreme Court decreed in the Watkins case that congressional committees must make clear to a witness that their questions are pertinent to contemplated legislation. Judge Youngdahl ruled that this aspect of the Watkins decision applied to the Peck case, and went on to newer ground. By asking Peck to reveal associations "remote...
...events, e.g., Roger Bannister outracing John Landy, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer for the New York Giants in 1951, Seabiscuit's 1938 triumph over War Admiral. For change of pace, Big Moment showed a basketball-court brawl, inspected the antics of aquatic stuntmen, took a slow-motion look at a disputed football play. This week it will picture Jack Fleck's U.S. Open golf victory over Ben Hogan in 1955, the 1942 race between Alsab and Whirlaway, the Army-Navy football game of 1948 (Army 21, Navy 21), and in weeks to come, Ben Hogan...
...trailerful of electronic apparatus (made for the purpose by Bendix Aviation Corp.), and recorded on a chart. When the first real satellite takes to space, ten Minitrack receiving stations will be ready in the U.S., Cuba, Antigua, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Australia. Their information about the satellite's motion will be flashed electronically to Washington, where past orbits will be charted and future orbits predicted by computer...
...this case the satellite was a Civil Air Patrol airplane, towing at the end of 100 ft. of clothesline a rubber plumber's helper fitted with two flashlight batteries and a one-tenth candlepower bulb. The airplane flew 110 m.p.h. at 7,000 ft, which simulated the motion of the satellite in its orbit. The dim bulb gave enough light to look like the satellite at dawn or dusk, when it is in sunlight and the earth below is in darkness...
When oldtime ships' officers could not see the sun or stars, they fell back on dead reckoning. By recording the ship's direction and its motion through the water, they tried to keep track of its position. The system did not work very well, chiefly because of crude instruments and because the effect of ocean currents was often unknown. But if a ship could have measured accurately its motion across the solid ocean bottom instead of the fluid surface, dead reckoning would have brought it to any harbor through the thickest...