Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Mr. Vautier stand a small but clearly audible group of New Hampshire citizens who work in Massachusetts, and who protest the income tax. They have been trying to get arrested for some time, and have posted signs along the roads leading into Massachusetts with mottos like "entering Tax-achusetts. Watch your wallets." After Mr. Vautier's arrest, they precipitated a minor riot around the Charles Street Jail, pointing out that their children do not go to Massachusetts schools, and that they partake very little in the benefits of the tax system of the state of Massachusetts. But more than...
...Strength of a Saw. Whether proud Francisco Franco will agree to such painful reforms is questionable. But even if he does not get the IMF loan, he is confident that the U.S. and other anti-Communist powers will not stand by and let his regime succumb to economic disaster. And despite all the grumbling among his people, Franco believes that their vivid memories of the bloody days when brother killed brother in Spain will keep them from open revolt. After 20 years in power, Franco's one great strength with his countrymen lies in the old Spanish saw: "Better...
...wife, was announced this week: Cecil H. Green (M.I.T. '23), vice president of Texas Instruments, Inc., a Dallas electronics firm, and board chairman of Geophysical Service, Inc., a subsidiary outfit that does seismographic exploration in 21 countries. Said M.I.T.'s President Julius Stratton: "The earth sciences stand on the threshold of great advances, as did electronics ten years ago. The gift . . . will enable geologists, chemists, physicists, meteorologists and oceanographers to work side by side in a basic and applied scientific program which will have, I am certain, the greatest impact on our economy and society...
...which shows that a current flows between two different metals (called a thermocouple) when the metals are held at different temperatures. Since such a system has no moving parts, the thermocouple is theoretically an ideal way to generate electricity. Catch has been that most suitable materials cannot stand the high temperatures needed to generate thermoelectric power on a large scale. By combining indium (a soft, silvery metal used in dental alloys) with arsenic and phosphorus, the Westinghouse researchers developed a new chemical compound that performed thermoelectrically at temperatures between 850° F. and 1,500° F., achieved an estimated...
...have written should have given offense to Gaitskell, for whom I formed a high regard. I was writing as a columnist and not as a political commentator. I did not think for one moment that anyone would take the article literally." But to inquiring press colleagues, he insisted: "I stand by my interview." And on the basis of that insistence, the Herald Tribune made tentative plans to run the offending column in the U.S. this week...