Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan grand jury was still investigating fixing on TV quiz shows, but the sponsors no longer saw much point in waiting for the report. By last week Twenty One, once the pride of Producers Jack Barry and Dan Enright, had sunk so far in the Trendex ratings (from a high of 34.7 to an alltime low of 10.9) that the sponsor (Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) decided to bow out, and NBC summarily took the show off the air. At CBS, The $64,000 Question was also on the sick list, but only Twenty One had a ready replacement: Concentration, another Barry & Enright...
Steam Steering. Operation at such dizzy height and speed has posed special problems and produced oddities in design. X-15's large vertical stabilizers are wedge-shaped, as if their trailing portions had been cut off with a saw. Wind-tunnel tests have shown that such a wedge is more efficient than a conventional streamlined shape for keeping the X-15 aligned on course as the atmosphere thins out at high altitude...
...Equalitarian Oberlin bans automobiles, and although almost every student pedals a bicycle, the hot spots of Cleveland-and Elyria-are out of effective range. But high spirits burst out, sometimes beerily. Night climbing expeditions have been known to ascend the lumpish fagades of classroom buildings, and a recent visitor saw two happy collegians reeling along on a motorcycle, one sitting backwards and whanging a guitar...
...Abandon prognostications on the conclave," exhorted Osservatore Romano. But in the city that once saw Popes chosen in great mass meetings of people and clergy, whose politicians often used strong-arm tactics to influence papal elections (as when Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II imprisoned cardinals to keep them from voting against his candidate), such exhortations were shouting against the wind...
...Parisians began to give Sonorama a whirl, Claude-Maxe was sure he had sold himself a good idea. He confidently printed 60,000 copies of the first issue, saw 20,000 snapped off the stands in four days, ordered another 40,000. Next month he plans to print 150,000 (with scenes and recordings from the life of Pope Pius XII), and he thinks he can hear a circulation...