Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough. In his 40th hour on the stand, the Senate voted by two-thirds majority to cut him off. Declaring angrily that "this is the shame of Colombia when a man can't defend himself," Rojas clamped on his hat and left. Two days later, the verdict was read to the empty yellow chair reserved for the defendant. Next week the sentence will be handed down. Maximum penalty from the Senate: loss of political rights, e.g., the right to vote, and his pensions as former general and President. Upon review, Colombia's Supreme Court can also...
Last week Dr. Guarducci presented the weighty, three-volume record of her findings to Pope John as a name-day present on the feast of St. Joseph (the Pope's baptismal name). Said she: "He thanked me and promised he would read it carefully...
...Technical University at Athens, Christofilos took electrical engineering. After graduation in 1938, he went to work for an elevator-building company. When the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, they turned the plant into a truck repair shop and gave him an easy supervisory job. Christofilos seized the chance to read all the German books he could get on advanced atomic physics. After the war he returned to the elevator business, but kept on restlessly reading physics...
...rebuff has ever stopped Christofilos. He wrote a second letter in 1950, outlining what is now called the "strong focusing" principle for building big accelerators. The reply from California advised him to read a certain mathematical book and clear up some errors. Christofilos did so, polished his theory and brought it to New York in 1953. He went straight to the Public Library, where he found that the strong focusing principle had already been developed independently by Brookhaven National Laboratory. "So you see," he says irrepressibly, "on the first day I came back to my country I found that...
...from the window of a low-flying Cessna and shoveled out handbills by the thousand. "Everything moves. Nothing stands still," they proclaimed. "Stop building cathedrals and pyramids which crumble like lumps of sugar! Stop resisting changeability! Be free! Live!" In the streets below, one man picked up a copy, read it, then shook his fist at the plane. Artist Jean Tinguely, 33, was delighted. "Some will say, 'very good.' Others will object. The overall result will be just what I wanted: total confusion...