Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line: after this spring's nuclear tests at Eniwetok Atoll, the U.S. will know more about "clean bombs'' for limited wars, hence will have less to lose by agreeing to a stoppage of tests without any Russian payment in return. Dulles himself seemed to signal some change in emphasis in recent testimony to a closed session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He still thinks a cease-test agreement undesirable, said he, but the issue is not a very vital question, and the U.S. now resists such an agreement because Britain and France want to keep testing...
...going-on-16 son of fond but unhelpful parents, Arthur Bartley (Burt Brinckerhoff) takes refuge, when at lome, in a basement hideaway, in a world of beer and draw poker with a pal, of fledgling sex with a professor's daughter. The girl becomes pregnant. Arthur tries to signal to his parents but cannot, then uses a forged check to pay for an abortion. In a suspenseful last act, everything suddenly comes out well-in fact, a little too much...
Agents for the big tour are New Directions, which, scant days ago, saw fit to publish Kenneth Patchen in the New Classics series (along with Conrad, Kafka, West and Stein), and Cadence Records, which celebrates this signal event with the release of an LP of Patchen reading his stuff to the Chamber Jazz Sextet, jouant. Despite the fact that much of the poetry in the book is lousy, the effect of the two-part package is invigorating...
...American friend, adding: "In rough translation, that means, 'Thank God, you finally went and did it.' " The British press, most of which had hooted in cheery derision at the flop of the Navy's Project Vanguard, now cheered. Wrote the London Express: "The moon's signal is a high-pitched, continuous wheeee. And that can be translated as, 'Cheer up, America. We're in the heavens, all's right with the world...
...Allen package" of instruments assembled by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designed to measure three things: cosmic rays, micrometeorites, and the temperature of the satellite itself. The cosmic-ray counter is a Geiger-Mueller tube that gives a signal whenever 32 rays have passed through it. It began performing normally as soon as the bird was launched...