Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power sources grows ever more active. Speaking at Columbia University in Manhattan last week, Dr. Richard S. Morse, head of a Commerce Department team studying motor vehicles, said that the Government was interested in "any possible means of moving people and goods around," including "fuel cells, batteries, turbines and steam engines." In fact, said Morse, "we're looking at everything from rubber bands...
NONFICTION 1. Madame Sarah, Skinner (1) 2. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Steam (3) 3. Everything But Money, Levenson (2) 4. Paper Lion, Plimpton (4) 5. Games People Play, Berne (7) 6. Inside South America, Gunther (5) 7. The Jury Returns, Nizer (6) 8. Disraeli, Blake 9. A Search for the Truth, Montgomery 10. The Boston Strangler, Frank...
Eastward Initiatives. Kiesinger's first aim when he took office last December was to balance the budget, whose looming $1.2 billion deficit had caused Erhard's Cabinet to break up. With some sleight of hand, he did so, and he managed to put some steam back into the lagging economy by speeding up federal spending. He also struck at the root cause of Erhard's financial distress: the billion-dollar offset payments that Bonn makes yearly to support U.S. and British forces in Germany. Contending that Bonn no longer had the financial health to afford such large...
...Mikrophonic I, all hell broke loose: sounds resembling runaway trains, breaking glass, blasts of hot steam, foghorns and whooshing jets flashed, crashed and faded like movements in some psychedelic symphony. The effects were achieved by two men who rubbed, scratched and bashed a gong with sticks, stones, brushes and mallets, while two other roving performers picked up the sounds with hand microphones and fed them into filters where further distortions were added...
...general, nonetheless, Johnson drew surprisingly little criticism. The New York Stock Exchange, which had begun a rise six days earlier, dipped quickly the morning after the speech but rallied within hours and, in a gigantic trading day, closed 8.35 points higher than it opened, and then kept up its steam all week (see U.S. BUSINESS). On Capitol Hill, key finance-committee leaders from both parties predicted that Congress would probably not rush consideration of a tax hike, since the President had not indicated that it was an emergency measure. But they were confident that an increase, if still necessary...