Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meals and personal hygiene. For work, he had to solve problems fed to him through a double-screen radarscope. Similar but not identical tracking patterns appeared on the two screens. By twiddling dials, Farrell had to make the right-hand screen match the left. Flanking him was a whopping panel with 30 lights, each labeled with a command. When the light flashed indicating "check oxygen equipment," Farrell did so and got his mask on in 19½ seconds...
...Medicine seems to be losing some of its ability to attract students," Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, indicated last night to an audience at the Career Conference panel discussion on "Medicine...
...launching a satellite. Von Braun proposed to slam a 5-lb. chunk of metal into orbit with the brute force of a souped-up Redstone; the Office of Naval Research kicked in $88,000 for work on an instrumented satellite, and Project Orbiter was born. It was shortlived; a panel of scientists sailed into the picture to recommend that the U.S. satellite become a project for the International Geophysical Year, and decided to put their money on the beautifully designed but totally untried Navy Vanguard. Argued Wernher von Braun: "This is not a design contest. It is a contest...
...Last Word: Groucho Marx collided with CBS's witty-genteel panel on how to use the English language-and the result suggested a custard pie hitting the electric fan at the faculty club. Speaking mostly in interruptions, Groucho hilariously showed how to use the language to bully, bluster and bewilder, spewed insults, non sequiturs, puns, and-when he turned to Panelist Harriet Van Home, pretty, blonde TV critic for New York City's World-Telegram and Sun-leers. In a calm moment, he gargled a bit from lolanthe. When Moderator Bergen Evans despaired of getting either silence...
...command, rooted in a strong Defense Secretary and bolstered by a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with sole military authority for decisions. Today's Joint Chiefs setup, said Clay, is "just another committee." Clay also added his vote to those (notably members of the Rockefeller Report panel) who have been demanding a setup whereby senior officers would belong to the same service, wear the same uniform and stand above interservice rivalries...