Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...S.A.O. also extracts funds from European sympathiz ers-the standard levy is 1% of salaries or wages. Paris has sent in police officials specially chosen for their reliability and toughness, but they have achieved little against the S.A.O. Said one: "We get a feeling we are working in a vacuum. Our orders are misinterpreted at lower echelons, and security leaks are flagrant...
...helped to keep the heart and lungs virtually bloodless. Dr. Cooley slit open the main pulmonary artery, found nothing in it. But in the successively smaller branches and in the lungs themselves were at least 18 clots. Dr. Cooley pulled some out with forceps, extracted the others with a vacuum suction tube. He washed out the lungs and squeezed them flat to get the last clots...
What curdles the viewer's admiration is the suspicion that the film also profits by its lack of clever camerawork, imaginative direction (Alexander Singer, a former producer of television commercials, is responsible) or well-plotted story. In this almost total vacuum, there is nothing at all to get in the way of a superb job by Lola Albright, a 37-year-old blonde known chiefly for having played Peter Gunn's girl friend on TV, and a performance almost as good by Marlowe, a 23-year-old TV actor. They play their parts-she has had three...
Wandering about town for a week before his broadcast, Sahl ritually shopped for his daily toy (a $25 Mont Blanc pen, a $5,000 E-type Jaguar), once went out at 3 a.m. into the grey vacuum of the London night just to have a look at the outsized eagle atop the new U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square. Then, taping his show before an audience full of political rebels and comedians (Lord Boothby, Peter Sellers), Sahl warmed them up with a note on his visit to the House of Commons ("I thought the debates were a little mannered...
Died. Dr. Lee de Forest, 87, indefatigable father of modern electronics, whose invention of the three-element vacuum tube in 1906 led to the development of radio, long-distance telephony, sound movies and television; following a long illness; in Hollywood. In the process of piling up more than 300 patents, the Yale-educated minister's son lost four fortunes, almost came to regret the product of his genius. Wrote he to the National Association of Broadcasters on the 40th anniversary of his audion tube: "You have debased [ my] child . . . You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence . . . a stench...