Word: signal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breeze, exploit the possibilities for chance movement that reside in lightly balanced equilibriums. Lye's idea is to exploit instead the resiliences of high-tempered steels and flexible plastics. He raises simple abstract constructions of such materials on pedestals containing silent motor-vibrators. At a taped signal, the motors go into action, moving first slowly, then faster in a carefully calculated cycle, and the sculptures begin taking shape upon...
...Vice President of the U.S. sat down gravely in a straight-backed, upholstered chair in a Moscow television studio one night last week. He placed a manuscript on the oval table before him, and on signal, began to read to a Soviet Union television and radio audience of millions the most remarkable speech they had ever heard from a foreigner...
...first radars of World War II could detect invading aircraft (giving the R.A.F. a big advantage in the Battle of Britain), but they were not much good on smaller targets. Modern radar is vastly more sophisticated, and a wondrous new refinement is an eye developed by the Army Signal Corps in collaboration with Hazeltine Corp. It can stare through darkness or fog at a terrain of tangled scrub and tell if a man is crawling through it two miles away; it can look at a walking human six miles away and tell whether its target is male or female...
Castro was celebrating July 26, the anniversary of the day six years ago that he fired a 12-gauge shotgun to signal the start of an abortive attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's Moncada Barracks, in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago. He also needed a display of hero worship so that he could accede to "popular demand" and resume the post of Prime Minister, which he had quit the previous week during the histrionics that preceded the purge of President Manuel Urrutia (TIME, July 27). He got it, and returned to office...
...pilgrims had viewed the untidy nest of sticks among the branches. Its occupants: a family of ospreys (fish hawks) with three fledglings-the first to be hatched in Britain since 1916. When the young birds flap off on their own in a week or two, they will mark a signal victory of British bird lovers over their ancient enemies, British egg collectors...