Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candle-power flares, recorded by a motion-picture camera. When its mission is accomplished, the drone can be parachuted to earth, reused time and again. "These little fellows have four obvious pluses for the field commander," says an Army droneman. "They require no take-off or landing strip; they are effective at night, when the enemy makes his important moves; they are easily recoverable; and they are pilotless -precious life is being preserved...
...inched along the streets and trains moved cautiously along their rights of way. The 5:18 from Charing Cross to Kent that evening ground to a stop just past St. John's station to wait its turn at Park's Bridge Junction, which Londoners call the "busiest strip of railway line in the world." The electric train's ten coaches were pack-jammed, with more than 1,000 passengers caught up in the confusion of the heaviest pea-souper in two years...
Kitchen TV. Builders this week put the fimsaing graces on the 301-room DuPont-Tarlton in downtown Miami. To the north, at Bal Harbour, the 162-room Beau Rivage was about ready to open. Nearing December openings along the seven-mile Miami Beach strip were two 14-story towers-the 538-room Deauville and the 620-room Carillon. In the Deauville, guests can tune in the kitchen from their rooms by means of a closed-circuit TV, see what the cook is whipping up for dinner. The Carillon has a different electronic attraction: four bells in its tower...
...Meyers removed a piece of the skull, four by five inches. Ultrasound cannot be transmitted through bone because on meeting such resistance it generates too much heat. With the skull flap out of the way, the surgeons made a shallow pan in its place, using a metal strip as border and the dura mater (the brain's parchment-like covering) as the bottom. This they filled with salt solution from which all gas had been removed (ultrasound is transmitted best through a liquid medium...
...downtown San Francisco and all along the Bohemian strip known as North Beach, other poets and hipsters were gigging together to the raucous applause of the city's beard-and-sandal set. The poetry was usually poor and the jazz was worse, but nobody seemed to care. Record business was being done by dim little jazz spots such as the Sail'N and the Black Hawk-the Taj Mahal of West Coast jazz, where Dave Brubeck blew himself to fame. And at the Tin Angel, on the waterfront, Trumpeter Dick Mills and his combo were playing with...