Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trapped miners, along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts would cave in what remained of the roof of that underground, pick-hewn grotto in which Fellin, Throne and, surely not too many feet away, Lou Bova, had been trapped...
Comes Thursday evening in Brasilia, barring the gravest of national emergencies, the city empties as if somebody had pulled a plug. Congressmen slip out of the chamber, pick up their tickets at handy airline booths right in the lobby of the Congress building, and rush to catch the 7:30 Electra...
...Chester Morris and Signe Hasso are in something called The Tender Heel-about a modern Achilles, of course, set in a Florida fishing village (Oct. 21). Man on Ice confronts an anthropologist with a Neanderthal in a cave. Director John Gerstad (The Seven Year Itch) has yet to pick an actor for either role, but the latter should be a snap (February). One half-cast comedy is The Owl and the Pussycat, by Wilton Manhoff. The pussycat goes in for acting, modeling and prostitution. A snoopy neighbor reports her to the police. Pussycat seeks the neighbor out and seduces...
...oscillographs, developed by Stanford University Electrical Engineer Richard Sweet, uses a vibration hardly as violent as a shiver to write a permanent record of oscilloscope traces that have only been caught in the past by delicate and expensive motion picture film. Spewed through a tiny nozzle, the ink droplets pick up a charge from an electrode attached to an oscilloscope. Then they fall, at the rate of 100,000 a second, between two electrically charged plates and hit a rapidly moving roll of recording paper. Each drop carries an electric charge that mirrors the changing electrical signal being detected...
Students who entered the Summer School Poetry Competition and want their manuscripts must pick them up in Matthews Hall 4 before Friday...