Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
...Miriam Makeba, whose success in the role catapulted her to solo spots in U.S. nightclubs; she has been replaced in the opera by 29-year-old Peggy Phango. From the beginning, the semipro chorus has been filled with carpenters, shop clerks, schoolteachers, messengers, housemaids, typists, even an X-ray technician...
Fight of the Week (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). World Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer defends his title against five-time Titleholder Sugar Ray Robinson...
Memories Are Made of This (Ray Conniff Orchestra and Chorus; Columbia). Suds and saccharin by one of the slickest arrangers in the business. Filtered through the echo chamber of the mind, Conniff's heavily percussioned memories sound like nobody else's, but they bear some familiar titles: Moments to Remember, My Foolish Heart, No Other Love...
...steps inside the computer. Furthermore, after the new brain has one problem going through its works, a second or a third can immediately be fed through its programer. It will set them up to use parts of the computer that the first problem is not using. Thus Burroughs President Ray R. Eppert figures that the B5000, which rents for $13,000 to $50,000 a month, can accomplish as much as a larger machine, which rents...