Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most outlandishly luxurious and wildly gimmicked night's rest in the history of the middle class. Today's motels bear about as much relation to the old tourist cabin as the Baths of Caracalla do to a penny arcade, and the grander names that now adorn them signal the newest look: Motor Inns, High Rise Motor Inns, Horizontal Hotels-almost anything but motels...
While she waited, Dr. Kelsey chanced on a British report that thalidomide might cause a tingling neuritis in some patients. From World War II work on antimalarial drugs, she suspected that this minor effect on adults might signal a more serious effect on the unborn. But not until nearly ten months later, in the last days of November 1961, did German reports link thalidomide with the European epidemic of seal-like, limbless babies...
Russia's Valery Brumel danced a little jig to loosen his leg muscles. He lifted his left hand in a crisp salute-a signal that he was ready. Suddenly he was galloping violently toward the pit. His left foot slammed into the ground and his body hurtled upward-left arm tucked against his chest, right leg thrust high. He barely grazed the crossbar; then he was clear and falling, the bar quivering behind him. The jump measured 7 ft. 5 in., a new world's record. And as Brumel bounced joyfully from the sawdust pit, 81,000 people...
...Radio signals of another sort were responsible last week for postponing the scheduled launching of an Atlas-Agena B rocket on the start of a 4½-month, 224 million-mile journey to Venus, the earth's sister planet. Mariner I was all set for the shot when an unindentified radio signal detected in the booster rocket made technicians at Cape Canaveral fear a malfunction. Later, they rescheduled the flight, which is aimed at discovering the first accurate data about Venus and its mysterious atmosphere...
Aberg attributes Ericsson's success abroad to "good products and long patience." Ericsson's laboratories are famed for their imaginative designs-among them the "thinking" switchboard (which automatically repeats a call a little later if the first try gets a busy signal) and the Ericofon, a telephone that has earpiece, mouthpiece and dial all in one unit. Ericsson's salesmen have spent as long as six years in a new country making their pitch and landing their first contract. Each year the company brings nearly 100 foreign engineers to Stockholm to train them...