Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows Edward Kennedy's mind better than California's shock-haired Junior Senator John Tunney. He roomed with Ted at law school, and he is the closest friend Ted has in Washington. Thus Tunney's endorsement of Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie was the clearest signal yet that Kennedy is serious about not running in the Democratic primaries...
...signal from another planet is ever received and deciphered, it would surely have an immeasurable impact on man. In one brief burst of information it would expand his horizons into infinity. In the process it would force him to re-examine some ancient questions. With his long heritage of Judeo-Christian culture, could Western man still be certain of his superior status in a God-created universe? Orthodox Christian theologians admit no doubts. There is, they insist, only one sovereign Lord of all creation, and he created man in his image. C.S. Lewis, prolific Protestant author and theologian...
...fingered hands. Finally, the bracket at the lower right seems to measure the height of the adults and is labeled at mid-point by the binary number eleven. Because the only length that the senders and receivers know in common is the 21-cm. wave length of the transmitted signal, it can be assumed that the adults are eleven of those wave lengths, or 71 ft. tall...
According to a column by Mary McGrory in Tuesday's Washington Evening Star, Galbraith, the Warburg Professor of Economics, had planned the dinner as "a wide-ranging discussion, which would also informally signal the end of the academy's antagonism over Asia policies...
More important, East Berlin might have used Ulbricht's re-election to flash a signal to Moscow. As events have shown, Ulbricht was fired at the insistence of the Russians, who wanted to ensure East German cooperation in negotiating a Berlin settlement. The East Germans are now engaged in almost nonstop negotiations with the West Germans. They may well reach agreement this week over new arrangements guaranteeing free transit to and from West Berlin and establishing more contact between the two parts of the divided city. Nonetheless, the East Germans may at the same time wish to indicate their...