Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early Bird gets its electric power from 6,000 solar cells; its orbit is so far from the earth that the earth's shadow seldom forces it to depend on storage batteries. Its electronic equipment will pick up radio-telephone and TV signals from earth, amplify them and transmit them back to earth far beyond their normal range...
...industry is also considering such ideas as wiper blades for headlights, autoguide devices on the front bumper that pick up signals from the highway's shoulder and guide the car, and G.M.'s completely automatic highway. But the automakers are in no hurry to rush new safety equipment to the market, and they are unlikely to move any faster on their own. One reason: installation of all the safety options already available would add $1,000 to the cost of the average...
...prospect of "a gut-bustin', mother-lovin' Navy war!" First as captain, then as Admiral "Rock" Torrey, whose ultimate mission is to oust the enemy from the fictional islands of Gavabutu and Levu-Vana, Wayne delivers a bedrock performance that provides anchorage for the shipshape supporting cast. Pick of the lot is Nurse Patricia Neal, who enlivens Wayne's hours ashore with straightforward passion. Wayne woos his long-estranged son (Brandon deWilde) away from the public-relations war mounted by a former Congressman (Patrick O'Neal) and an incompetent admiral (Dana Andrews), then has to send...
...were alarming in their cheerful fecklessness. Too much a conjuror, skillfully juggling with balls of dynamite whose nature he failed to understand." All told, Eden preferred Joe Stalin, though he did not trust him: "Indeed, after something like 30 years' experience of international conferences, if I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice. Of course the man was ruthless...
Unstructured Reading. More students than ever before are putting their vacation to such serious purpose. Out of sympathy for the migrant worker, 100 University of California students plan to pick crops in the North Central Valley and help unionize the workers. With increasing pressure on high school seniors to compete for college admissions many plan to stay home and study. At the college level, too, there are signs of growing preoccupation with studies. Students at Reed concentrate on "unstructured reading." "Let's face it-if you don't get working now, you don't get working," notes...