Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everything Right." In the first of the two games last week, Rollins proved that he was worth the votes. He was the only American League standout in a contest that saw Willie Mays cover centerfield like a vacuum cleaner, Maury Wills steal everything except the Scoreboard, the National League win 3-1. But in a losing cause, Rollins handled three hot shots to third flawlessly, and shut off a National League rally with a one-hand grab of Tommy Davis' ripping sixth-inning grounder. At bat, he was the only American Leaguer to reach base twice, scored his team...
...powers of the President. The country's military brass now gave Goulart their blessing, and it seemed likely that the voters would do the same. Said Rio's respected Jornal do Brasil: "The head must come back to its place. A true power must occupy the vacuum which now exists...
...player piano [TIME, June 22] that seemed beyond repair. She gave it to my father for his birthday and wished him luck. With the help of cut-up babies' rubber pants for the bellows, new felt for the key backings, and an old vacuum cleaner for self-pumping, we now have a fully automated intune player piano...
...anesthetic, he saws out a dime-sized piece of the skull, then inserts a three-in-one tube, only 2 mm. (less than 1½ in.) in diameter. The tube slips painlessly through the insensitive brain to the deep-lying thalamus. The tube's outer layer is a vacuum insulator; the innermost bore carries liquid nitrogen supplied at -196° C.; the middle layer is for warmed and gaseous nitrogen to escape...
...among Spaniards; few have kind memories of Spain's ineffectual Borbon dynasty or long for the return of the golden carriages and the steel-hoofed clatter of hussars, the summer parties and the winter balls, the problems of precedence and the scramble for preference. But in the political vacuum that is bound to follow Franco, the monarchy might well be the only source of stability. Says one Catholic intellectual: "After 25 years of no politics, we must have something to hang on to." Even a onetime diehard Republican can agree: "Now I feel the monarchy is the least dangerous...