Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often stilted, static, unreal, and riddled with tasteless jokes and cliches that would embarrass Helen Trent. It is also awkwardly resolved: the play ended with the girl surviving the abortion-and only then did the walls of noncommunication tumble -but the movie tacks on a climactic chase in the night, in which the boy's father snatches the girl from danger, then gives his son enough money to go off and get married somewhere, presumably anywhere, so long as it's away from home. This dubious happy ending suggests an even more dubious moral...
...monoxide and a great deal of carbon dioxide began coming out of crevices. Firemen pointed their hoses down the biggest cracks; for a while the fumes turned to steam, but the fire burned on. In 1952 a sleeping couple was killed by fumes creeping into their bedroom. On one night in 1954, fifteen people were overcome. Since the fire started, several hundred residents of the parboiled area have been nauseated or knocked...
Blasts from Space. During the night of May 11-12, five balloons rose into the sky from the university's airport at Anoka, 20 miles north of Minneapolis. At 60,000 ft. their instruments began to register intense blasts of radiation. Study of the instrument packages at the University of Minnesota showed that the radiation was made of speeding protons from the sun. The radiation was about 1,000 times as intense as the cosmic rays that normally come from space. Unlike the Van Allen radiation, which is made of solar protons that have been trapped by the earth...
...austere, cheap ($1,795) Scotsman. That car missed, but it taught Churchill that U.S. buyers want more than a stripped-down version of a costlier car. So he built a new car, presided over every mechanical detail, hustled out to the plant at any hour of day or night when a decision was needed. The Big Three have been working on their compact cars for a year or more. The Lark was driven into showrooms just seven months after the decision to build it, because, says Chief Engineer Gene Hardig, the company has no tangle of committees to worry about...
Reflecting Runway. A reflecting paint for airport runways and taxi strips that makes them brightly visible at night is being sold by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. The mixture, called Scotch-Rok, reflects a plane's landing lights two miles away...