Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinction is a planet about ten times as big as Jupiter. No one knows precisely what the inhabitants of that planet look like. But one day in the year 1894, Cygnian scientists, hunched over their radios, heard the familiar static of space crowded into the background by an unfamiliar signal. The message was undecipherable, but its meaning, they decided, was clear. They were receiving greetings from Earth, that little planet in the solar system some 66 trillion miles away...
Obviously, the signal demanded an answer, and the thoughtful Cygnians labored mightily over their reply. They hoped that earthmen would understand it, since they were sending it back by laser beam. But they were wrong...
...their advanced skills, the sci entists of Cygnus made two important errors. In the first place, the signal they received contained no message at all. It came straight from Indonesia, where the volcano Krakatoa had erupted elev en years before, generating meaningless radio waves with its churning plasma...
...weeks, Washington has been waiting for Lyndon Johnson to fill a looming vacancy on the seven-man Federal Reserve Board, expecting his choice to signal whether the board will stress easy or tighter money. Last week, Johnson took the trodden path: he reappointed James Louis Robertson, 56, whose term officially expired in January, to another 14-year term as governor. Robertson agrees with Johnson that the thriving U.S. economy is not yet in a boom and thus needs no hike in interest rates to restrain its growth. Says he: "I don't intend to begin fighting inflation until inflation...
...years. The latest is a circular, multicolored, fruit-flavored oat cereal called Froot Loops, which Kellogg's is pushing as suitable-or possibly sootable-for all the family from 5 to 95. Just as pre-sugared cereals became the big sellers of the '50s, Froot Loops may signal a new trend in the '60s toward fruit-flavored cereals...