Word: originating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very long, low-frequency waves from the universe never reach terrestrial receivers because they are blocked by the earth's ionosphere, the outer layer of the atmosphere composed of ionized, or charged, molecules and free electrons. These long radio waves convey a great deal of information--about the origin of cosmic rays, magnetic fields in space, the mechanism of solar flares, and radio storms on Jupiter, for example. To record these long waves, Harvard, in cooperation with the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory, has built and orbited a series of small radio telescopes above the opaque ionosphere...
...Leukemia, reported the World Health Organization, has strange geographic preferences that might contain some valuable clues to the origin of the disease. In the U.S., mortality from leukemia is 50% higher in cities than in rural areas. The disease generally seems to thrive in a belt stretching across the north of the country, particularly west of the Mississippi. In New York City, it occurs twice as often among the Jewish population as among Protestants or Roman Catholics. Mortality from leukemia is high in the U.S., Denmark and Israel but relatively low in France, Ireland, Italy and Japan...
...break up that pattern, the ordinance banned "discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry" in all housing transactions, including mortgage loans. It provided for a board to investigate complaints and, if private persuasion fails, to order corrective action. Anybody found guilty by a court of violating a board order could be jailed for six months, fined...
...most famous homes in the country," says Ward. "Sir Winston Churchill and many leading politicians have been among my patients; Prince Philip, the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Lord Snowdon have been among my sitters." Ward also had a genuine interest in young girls of humble origin. "I like pretty girls," he says. "I am sensitive to the needs and the stresses of modern living." To the great and near great. Ward introduced "attractive young girls like Christine Keeler, who come from the provinces or the remote suburbs" and for whom "London is a battlefield...
...Moscow last week, one might have thought Madison Avenue had been moved to Gorky Street. First came endorsement of blue jeans, a commodity the Kremlin had always disdained as a capitalist fad worn only by parasites. Nonsense, declared Izvestia, "Texas trousers" are "very useful," adding reassuringly that "the origin of blue jeans is not with Hollywood movie stars, but with real cowboys, who don't take part in wild chases and romantic gunplay, but in honest and hard work...