Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smallest Transmitter. A 20-mm. shell is less than an inch in diameter, but Roy J. Smollet of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md., has built a radio transmitter that fits into its nose and leaves room to spare. The transmitter has one transistor, a coil half an inch across, and a mercury battery considerably smaller than a dime. When the shell is fired, it sends out a wave that tells how the shell is spinning and whether it is wobbling in its flight...
...ever known," said his diminutive (120 lbs.) owner, California Physician John A. Saylor. "He never plays. Bulldogs sit and brood-when they're not sleeping, that is. Jock spends nine-tenths of his waking hours asleep." With fine disdain Jock stood in the ring while a silver-blonde Afghan, a sealyham terrier, an English springer spaniel, a Yorkshire terrier and a boxer competed with him for best in show. "He just doesn't give a damn until he wants to give a damn," sighed Owner Saylor, "and he doesn't give one very often...
...first day, Navy pilots reported sighting a few silver-wing flashes over the mainland and a few scattered junks. Peking radio blustered about "provocation" and "danger of starting a major war." But in the face of the Seventh Fleet's might, Peking subsided into disconnected and embarrassed mutterings. By Monday night all sign of Communist activity had vanished. The muzzle covers stayed...
Presidents & Peddlers. In each country he visited, Nixon called upon the chief of state-President-elect Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Presidents Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in Mexico and Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala-to present a silver-framed picture of Ike and Mamie Eisenhower and to chat about affairs of state. But Nixon also shook hands with and talked to the common people he met at every turn-leather-palmed cane-field workers, ragged fruit peddlers, schoolkids, mothers with babes in arms. Unaccustomed to such free-and-easy mingling, the Latin government officials who escorted the Vice President around often seemed...
...Election of the week: Charles H. Silver, 66, Manhattan's tireless toastmaster and backer of good causes, by his fellow board members, as New York City's president of the Board of Education. Born in Rumania, Silver was brought to Manhattan's East Side slums before he was three, at 15 went to work as an office boy at the" American Woolen Co. for $2.50 a week, rose to become vice president at more than $100,000 a year. A man who has been known to raise as much as $2,000,000 at a single banquet...