Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evans, at least, the answer was obvious. When water was pumped deep into the Pre-Cambrian rock around the bottom of the well, he said, it lubricated the surfaces of vertical fractures, allowing the rock faces to slide against each other, causing recurring tremors. The theory sounded good enough for Colorado Congressman Roy McVicker, who called for a full-scale scientific investigation. Beginning in December, the U.S. Geological Survey and four Colorado colleges and universities set up seismographs on the arsenal grounds; they recorded quakes while Army technicians systematically reduced both the volume and pressure of waste water entering...
...those technical goodies, a film packed with cues for stock responses so nobody will think he's being put on. It means a cutting-speed where every few gags has a punch-line shot held for emphasis until you want to cry "Next!" like a slide-lecturer...
...Mount Palomar Observatory. There, his tall, gangling frame seems suddenly reduced to Lilliputian proportions by the mammoth, 200-in. telescope that towers above him. An elevator hauls him slowly to a cylindrical observer's cage inside the telescope itself, and the dome's curved doors slide open to the cold mountain air. Perched high above the observatory floor, with classical music from an all-night Los Angeles radio station in the background, he checks his instruments, loads a camera and settles down to his lonely vigil...
...always on the phone with suggestions and send out as many as eight research reports a month. Many governments restrict trading in U.S. stocks; Britain imposes a 4¼% tax on it, and countries as diverse as Chile and Denmark flatly prohibit it. Imaginative investors, however, usually can slide around the restrictions. The main reason for their interest is that, despite the recent weakness, the U.S. stock market has had a longer and stronger upswing than any other in the world-and foreign investors want to buy a piece of the expansive U.S. economy...
Most Diversionary Direction: to Russell Rouse, who apparently decided that hopeless dialogue can ring funny when played as high tragedy. "Do you bleed? Do you cry?" moans trampled Talent Scout Eleanor Parker. "I'm not some sort of garbage pail you can slide a lid on and walk away!" she adds. The less raunchy lines are disposed of in rounds of verbal pingpong. Let Boyd say "My head is splitting" (ping) and Wife Elke Sommer is sure to answer "So is our marriage" (pong). Milton Berle, Joseph Cotten, Jill St. John, Peter Lawford and Edie Adams all prove expert...