Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under "shield laws" in twelve states, newsmen can refuse to reveal their sources. But Oregon puts no such priority on freedom of the press. Last week in a nonjury trial, Annette was found guilty of contempt. Though she escaped a possible six-month jail sentence, she was fined $300. Editorial writers across the U.S. leaped to her defense. "Guilty of contempt or not," said the Eugene, Ore., Register-Guard, "Miss Buchanan has performed a public service" in pointing up serious questions. "The relationship between the press and civil authority, invaluable and unquestioned in more than a century of Oregon history...
...wars. Only last fall Saigon troops recaptured the hamlet after it had been in Viet Cong hands for six months. Tau Nghia's fortunes abruptly changed. First the Korean Tiger Division arrived and set up its headquarters in nearby Qui Nhon, providing a visible and powerful shield of security. And last January a 66-man Vietnamese pacification team rolled in to bring Tau Nghia back to life...
...Timer. Fred Allen once called Wynn the funniest visual comedian of the day - and so he was. He ate corn by attaching it to a typewriter carriage, knocking it back every time he wanted to start a new row; he invented a wind shield wiper to be served with grape fruit; and an eleven-foot pole for people he wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole...
...heated by the friction of the spacecraft's passage. They were the first re-entry photographs ever taken. As Gemini plunged into denser atmosphere, the colors increased in brilliance: a sharply defined blue shock wave expanded, and hot, golden fragments ripped loose from the glowing heat shield to shoot past the window in a dazzling stream...
...ATDA's telemetry had suggested earlier, the two halves of the protective plastic shroud designed to shield the satellite's docking collar during its trip through the earth's atmosphere had failed to separate and spring away. Rolling through space, the target presented an astonishing sight. The two shroud "clamshells" were still attached by wires but had swung open at a 30° angle like a giant jaw. "We've got a weird-looking machine here," Stafford reported. "It looks like an angry alligator out here rotating around...