Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carries them is guided by ground radar until it is 20 miles from an invading bomber. Then the fighter's own radar picks up the target, locks onto it, and analyzes its relative motion. During this phase, the slim Falcons under the fighter plane's wing are quiet and lifeless. When the target approaches the Falcons' range, the pilot throws a switch, and the Falcons wake up. Their little gyros spin; the antennae in their noses search for the enemy. What the Falcons' delicate senses are looking for is a stream of radar pulses reflected from...
...This quiet announcement should be viewed in Cambridge, New Haven and other way stops on the Ivy circuit with more than academic interest. An independent schedule for Chicago seems to preclude any attempts of the Maroon to regain its seat in the Big Ten. Chicago could schedule teams like Washington University of St. Louis, but the field of big-name midwestern schools playing amateur football is limited. It is not unlikely that Chicago will seek a few billings on the select fall engagement calendars of the Ivy League...
Vienna has capitulated to the jukebox. It was in Viennese restaurants that Johann Strauss Jr. first played some of his great waltzes; gypsy fiddlers roamed Viennese bars, while in quiet cafes the only music (no less attractive in its own way) used to be the rustle of turning newspapers and the click of spoons scooping the whipped cream from the coffee cups. Now, everywhere, jukeboxes are going full blast. Vienna has 400, all bought during the past 14 months, the rest of the country has 300 more, and jukebox salesmen (one of whom is a count, of course) report that...
...found freedom is Summer Afternoon (opposite), started as a sketch in 1917 and completed as a watercolor in 1948. The finished scene shows Little Beaver Creek, Burchfield's boyhood swimming hole, capturing with almost Van Gogh-like intensity his own feeling of "the ineffable peace of a quiet summer day in those far-off times. All things seem to look at and yearn toward...
...Some quiet notes of caution slipped into the sweet, purring music of U.S. prosperity last week...