Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only African physician. Hour after hour the government press office, its walls anachronistically decorated with inviting travel posters, ground out fresh communiqués-a road block put up here, a prison stormed there, a European game warden and a forest ranger attacked elsewhere. Against the clubs, stones and pan gas of the Africans, the government had Bren guns, Sten guns, spotter planes-even Vampire jets-plus the services of the King's African Riflemen, the Rhodesia African Rifles, the Royal Rhodesia Regiment, Southern Rhodesia's South African Police, the Royal Rhodesian Air Force, the Tanganyika police...
...unconvincing plea of innocence on the stand: "I thought I was monstrously overcharged." Thinking otherwise, the judge fined her $5.60 for being drunk and disorderly. That afternoon, hiding any signs of a hangover, Sarah gave a stunning performance in the title role with the road company of Peter Pan...
...hazard of the nuclear age came to light last week. Five mechanics of Pan American World Airways had been in Gander, Nfld., to check the Boeing 707 jetliner that went into an unscheduled dive-and almost plunged its passengers into the Atlantic (TIME, Feb. 16). They did their job and returned to New York. When the mechanics passed through a gate at Idlewild International Airport, one of the unseen Geiger counters that monitor international travelers chattered an alarm; some of the work clothes they were wearing were radioactive. At the Pan American dispensary, they were decontaminated and pronounced...
...incident revealed that1) the U.S. had prudently installed a system to check incoming travelers for radioactive material; 2) nuclear bomb tests have left enough radioactive debris in the atmosphere to contaminate high-flying planes. Pan Am's 707 had been flying at about 35,000 ft., and the radioactive particles had stuck to oily outside surfaces; when the mechanics checked the aircraft, their gloves and clothes picked up a charge...
...been involved. The amount of contamination was not considered large enough to present any threats to passengers, but might endanger mechanics who were exposed to it for long periods while servicing the plane. Though the Public Health Service had not yet decided what precautions should be taken, Pan Am washed down the rest of its jets, may institute a system of spot checking jet flights for any trace of radioactivity...