Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reveal the man behind the masks and to place the poet among his peers is an urgent task, but Critic Charles Norman (The Magic-Maker: e. e. cummings) has not done it. His book is a triumph of industry and a signal display of disorganization, a patchwork-letters, reminiscences, vignettes-of incoherent research. Apart from a few candid shots of its subject, the book is significant only because it treats Pound seriously and heralds the work that will treat him definitively. It is a reminder that he cannot be written off and must, more and more, be written about. Pound...
...usual format next week to do a novel portrait of Middle Linebacker Sam Huff of the New York Giants. A small trans mitter was sewed into Huff's padding during practice sessions and an exhibition game with the Chicago Bears, yielding such odd fragments as a defensive signal that goes "Brigitte Bardot double blitz" and a sharp warning from Huff to an elbow-throwing Bear: "You do that one more time, 88, and I'm going to sock...
...found other uses for them, e.g., cleaning pipelines by blowing air and sand through them, boosting pressure on gas wells. AiResearch's smallest gas turbine, which weighs only 48 Ibs. yet produces 35 h.p., is used by the armed forces as a portable generator to power signal equipment. Looking ahead, engineers foresee gas turbines running dentists' drills and supplying the power for giant refrigeration systems...
February 1, 1960, is now a signal date in American social history. The chronology and importance of the sit-in movement, which began on that day in Greensboro, North Carolina, are well enough known that they need not be repeated here. It is sufficient to note only that less than nine months later, lunch counters in over 110 communities in the South are for the first time serving both white and Negro customers. Non-violent resistance, the tactic of protest in the Southern cities and in Northern sympathy demonstrations, was never before used so widely or so successfully in America...
Courier 1B, however successful, is only an experimental job. It communicates with two stations only, and its orbit (500 miles perigee. 750 miles apogee) is too low to bring it in range of all parts of the earth. The Signal Corps plan is to supplant it eventually by three communications satellites spaced around the earth on once-per-day orbits 22.000 miles up. At this altitude each will stay fixed above its own part of the rotating earth. Anyone wanting to send the King James Version-or any message of similar length -from Port Said to Las Vegas or Tokyo...