Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committed it to people who were prepared to raise this challenge against the Johnson Administration at a time when it seemed to me a lot of other politicians were afraid to come down into the playing field. They were willing to stay up on the mountains and light signal fires and bonfires and dance in the light of the moon. But none of them came down. They weren't even coming in from outside, just throwing a message over the fence...
...planned, one of the nation's longest-running merger dramas will come to an end. Since last summer, the huge farm-and industrial-equipment maker has spurned the courtship of Dallas' LingTemco-Vought, been dropped by General Dynamics and forcefully wrenched from a third merger prospect, Signal Oil. That, reportedly, was the work of Kleiner, Bell & Co., a Beverly Hills brokerage firm, which holds some 15% of Allis-Chalmers stock. Kleiner, Bell President Burt Kleiner, who had apparently bought in when Allis-Chalmers was selling at around $40 a share, protested that Signal's $46-per-share...
...Webfoots could boast a second team All-American of their own at quarterback, and Billy Steers was second only to Centre College's immortal Bo McMillin as America's top signal-caller. To offset Horween's kicking skill, Oregon had Skeet Manerud; and fullback Hollis Huntington, already a veteran of two Rose Bowl games, could more than match Church on brute drive...
...Multiplicity suggests a natural phenomenon," says Astronomer Hewish. "It would be stretching the imagination too far for all of them to be generated by intelligent beings." The Mullard team searched in vain for slight changes in signal frequency that would indicate it came from a planet or a double star system; in orbit around a star, for example, a planetary transmitter would alternately approach and recede from the earth, producing a Doppler effect that would first increase and then decrease the frequency of its signal...
...Cambridge team published its findings and tentative conclusions in Nature, setting off a flurry of activity among U.S. scientists. Focusing Cornell University's giant radio telescope near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on the one pulsar whose position was given by the British, Astronomer Frank Drake confirmed the rapid, regular signal and discovered that it was ten times as powerful at 111 MH (for megahertz: 1,000,000 cycles per second) than at any other frequency. "This has been the biggest bombshell that I can remember in radio astronomy," he says. Caltech Astronomer Maarten Schmidt, who discovered the strange nature...