Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Lyndon Johnson became Vice President two years ago, he left a vacuum in effective Senate leadership. In such vacuums, power goes to those who seek it. Kerr sought it and, even though he held no official leadership title, he soon became known as the Senator to see to get things done. He was, said the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, the "kind of man who would charge hell with a bucket of water and think he could put it out." When he first went to the Senate, he was worth about $3,000,000; at the time of his death...
...retail chains have lasted longer while changing less than the nationwide string of stores operated by the Singer Manufacturing Co. In the 111 years since Singer's founding, its stores have offered customers nothing but sewing machines, sewing accessories, sewing lessons-and, latterly, vacuum cleaners. Now, however, in 864 of its retail outlets, Singer is offering something new - a 770-page mailorder catalogue that lists more than 15,000 items ranging from lingerie to storm windows...
...film, even during an exposure of one-thousandth of a second. A small computing device called an intervalometer must note the airplane's speed and altitude and figure out how fast the film must move to keep exact pace with the ground. Just before the shutter opens a vacuum sucks the film against a perforated plate that starts moving at the necessary speed. After the shutter has closed, the vacuum releases the film so a new frame can be advanced, and the plate snaps back to its starting position...
Command Control. For months, the world watched Mariner II. Careful measurements showed that it would pass about 21,000 miles from the planet; but space, with its sucking vacuum, fierce radiation and gnawing micrometeoroids, is a hostile environment for man's machines. No one could be sure that when Mariner II made its dash past Venus it would be in shape to report what its instruments saw there...
...shortage is leading many Common Market companies to switch from light industry, which requires many workers, to more mechanized heavy industry. Since Greece has labor to spare, it should concentrate on light industries such as textiles and clothing manufacture. "We have the manpower," says Stratos. "We can fill the vacuum...