Word: sling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tensegrity mast is an ideal, lightweight kingpost from which to sling hovering floors or soaring ceilings. The octet truss can be extended in any of twelve directions, used whenever a light and inexpensive space frame is needed to span great distances. "Right now," says Bucky, "the truss and mast together could be made to bridge the Grand Canyon...
...General Ely last week is both a consequence and a symbol of the vast new peacetime role De Gaulle has given France's army. Famed for courage-Ely wears the Croix de guerre with six citations (both World Wars and Indo China), still carries his arm in a sling as a result of a World War II wound-France's top active soldier has rare prestige with the French officer corps...
...dogged fight to head off aggressive world Communism, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has taken many a sling and arrow from behind. Last week Dulles was in the thick of a struggle to defend the beleaguered Chinese Nationalist island of Quemoy-from an attack begun and carried on night and day by Communist guns, backed by Peking's threats to conquer Formosa, and charged with tension by Moscow's bomb-rattling promise to throw the U.S. out of Asia. Yet Dulles had reason to wonder whether he did not have more to fear from his friends than...
...disaster strikes, whether from bombing or an industrial reactor accident, how can physicians tell how much radiation a victim has received? Last week the Walter Reed Army Medical Center at Bethesda. Md. unveiled one of the nation's two "whole-body counting facilities." The patient, on a hammock sling, is slid into the machine like a French loaf into an oven, and dials immediately register how much radioactive material (emitting gamma rays,) he has absorbed...
...trigger the probe's own rocket, guiding it so that the moon sweeps it in. Then the probe can make a lazy, 50-hour pass around the moon, performing such chores as sending an electric-eye view of the moon's unseen face. Theoretically, the moon could sling the vehicle back to earth in a figure-eight-shaped voyage (TIME, June...