Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most significant contributors to twentieth century Western culture. Their two albums, Shout (RCA Victor, #LMP-2156) and Twist and Shout (Wand Records, #653) have rescued a sinking Rock and Roll culture in America and reshaped it; the Isley Brothers make Bill Haley look adolescent, Buddy Holly untalented, and Ray Charles pathetically tame...
...addition to its thematic depth and brilliance "Shout" reveals technical mastery. With all the craft and subtlety of Eliot employing allusions to the Blood of Isaiah, the Isley Brothers artfully weave passages from Jackie Wilson's "Lonley Teardrops" and Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" into the song deepening its meaning without harming its organic unity...
Permanent magnets seemed permanently limited until Westinghouse Engineer Ray Radus taught them a new trick. Radus began by building an unusually strong magnet, a slice of ceramic material sandwiched between flat plates of soft steel. With the steel focusing its lines of magnetic force in much the same manner that a small lens strengthens a spotlight beam, one of Radus' ceramic sandwiches only an inch square can exert a pull of some 30 lbs. The problem-to make it let go. If a few turns of wire are wrapped around the sandwich, and a small current is sent through...
Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
...lost to Cornell last week, but remains the top contender for the championship. The Quakers are led by captain John Wideman, a Rhodes Scholar, and Bob Purdy, both of whom were All-Ivy second team selections last season. Wideman plays the back court with senior Sid Amirs and junior Ray Caruso, who has been the leading scorer of late. Eight of Penn's 12 lettermen are in the front court, and in addition to Purdy, who finished seventh in league scoring last season, the top returnees are J.D. Graham, Dave Robinson, and Jeff Sturm...