Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eyewash. In Leominster. Mass., Robert J. Cunningham was sentenced to 30 days in the House of Correction after disobeying a traffic signal, squirting an irate cop in the face with a water pistol...
...South Korea from Communist invasion, had financed and advised Rhee's government after the armistice, and was bound to share the blame in Asia for his increasing transgressions against democratic processes. Whether State planned it that way or not, the public protest echoed far beyond Korea as a signal that the U.S. intends to speak up to errant friends as well as enemies when their conduct-even though internal-offends the basic principles for which the U.S. stands...
Grand Girandole. Pomp and circumstance attended him. He stood on a floodlit, red and gold balcony above St. James's Park to watch a cacophonous fireworks display including "The Cross of Lorraine," a "Grand" Girandole of Shells and Mines," and finally, "Ten Signal Aerial Maroons Exploded at a Great Height." Cracked a London newsman: "The explosive power of the demonstration probably equaled one French A-bomb...
...centimeter waves (1,420 megacycles) that come from cold hydrogen in interstellar space, the telescope is so set up that it points for a short time at the target star, then at an empty region beside it. The system eliminates background "noise," and the balance of the signal should contain any message that might be coming from one of the star's planets...
...what message would the aliens send that could be understood by earthlings? Dr. Drake suggests a familiar series of numbers, such as 1, 2, 3, 4. Professor Purcell believes that a simple on-off signal would be more logical as a starter. After that, the messages could progress to mathematical relationships, which are surely the same in all planetary systems. When earthlings understand the aliens' way of saying two plus two equals four, they will have learned the important words "plus" and "equals." Other words and logical concepts could be taught in the same...