Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale is the bigger, more powerful team, though in speed Dartmouth has the edge almost everywhere. Fullback Don Burrows and halfback Calvin Hill (out last week with an injury) give Yale a pair of powerful runners, and Pete Doherty will still be handling the signal-calling for the injured Brian Dowling...
Free of Flak. The first such signal was flashed when Secretary of State Dean Rusk met Gromyko at the United Nations last month and found the atmosphere refreshingly free of polemic flak. Kremlinologists thought they detected an extra beep when Gromyko, in the midst of an otherwise vituperative speech to the General Assembly, remarked: "Even when other centers of international tension appear, Europe still remains the barometer of the world's political weather." That, in the convoluted language of Soviet diplomacy, appeared to mean that the Russians, whatever they may say in public, are tired of letting Viet...
...Limbo. A signal example of hastily considered legislation was the bill that created the U.S.'s twelfth Cabinet agency, the Department of Transportation. Swayed as much by the exigencies of leaving town and lobbyists' pressures as by legislative logic, the Congress in effect ignored sea transport, voted to keep the Maritime Administration out of DOT and leave the agency in its present autocratic limbo within the Department of Commerce. The President strongly disapproved of Congress' inaction on the Maritime Administration, but he signed the bill at week...
...many motorists, the amber traffic signal is more a challenge than a warning: instead of slowing down, they speed up, trying to beat the light before it changes. It is a hazardous practice, since there is no way of knowing precisely when the light will turn...
...answer may prove to be a new "countdown" traffic light that has been tested over an eight-month period in Abilene, Texas, and cut traffic accidents at a busy intersection by 44% . It looks like an ordinary traffic-light signal head. But twelve seconds before it is due to change, the amber light blinks a count down from nine to one at one-second intervals in 10-in.-high numerals that are visible for 200 ft. It then glows steadily amber for three more seconds before the signal turns...