Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factor in the economy of every industrialized nation, and few nations have kept a closer watch on that price than the U.S. Whenever steelmen even talk about raising prices, a storm rises over official Washington. Congress has investigated almost every steel price rise since Robert Taft led an angry probe into one of the first postwar hikes in 1948, and federal authorities have long grumbled that steel prices seem to have little regard for the law of supply and demand. Last week a federal grand jury made that charge official by indicting the nation's biggest steelmakers on charges...
...test such tiny apparatus, the disk is locked in a machine, and a probe with many electrical contacts in its tip is pressed against each circuit. Currents flowing through the contacts check out every element of the circuit, and if it fails to meet all requirements,' the probe marks it for rejection with a speck of dye. Then another machine makes checkerboard scratches between the circuits, and they are separated into "dice" by breaking the brittle disk along the scratches...
LEONARD BASKIN-Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th. Ten etched portrait studies of Ensor, Bruegel, Callot and other figures from the past. As a portraitist, Baskin is incisive; crisscrossing a face as if tracing its nerve network, he seems to probe the subject's inner nature. His Munch is a memorable expressionistic achievement of the Norwegian painter's own aim to synthesize modern form and symbolic expression. Through April...
Higgs was in Cambridge last week, interviewing students for his project in Washington this summer. Inevitably the interview degenerates into a tug of war with Higgs carefully outlining his work and the student anxiously trying to probe the bizarre details of this man's history. The student usually lost, for Higgs is reticent about his past, and his "conversion" has left no visible scars. Still the complete Southern gentleman, he drawls softly and easily, smiles often, listens courteously--with apparent interest--to any argument, and seems incapable of anger or depression. His 6 feet, 3 inch frame moves with...
...West's new leaders probe for new foreign-policy approaches, there is always the danger of a misstep. Johnson, for instance, almost certainly overreacted to Fidel Castro's nuisance-value move of cutting off Guantanamo's water supply. He has got to learn that activity, or even action, is not to be equated with wisdom. And he seems to be more thin-skinned than a Texan should be over criticism of his conduct of foreign affairs. Last week, before a group of Internal Revenue agents, he made some petulant off-the-cuff remarks in defense...