Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been sucked into the power vacuum left behind by the colonial rulers. As a result, "we have scattered our assistance to such a degree that we help everybody a little and nobody enough . . . In this globalism and scatteration we have created enough disappointment and frustration to generate a wave of anti-Americanism . . . Our security and well-being are not involved in Southeast Asia or in Korea and never have been...
...make things more interesting, the surfers were required to follow a zigzag course, much like a slalom ski run. Judges deducted points for such infractions as "bottom turning"-cutting in front of another surfer knifing down the wave. The surprise winner: Honolulu Schoolboy Fred Hemmings Jr., 18, who became surfing's youngest world champion ever by riding three waves 600 yds. or so, tucking himself out of sight in "the pipe" (the fastest, most dangerous part of the wave, where it rolls over and down) to gain speed, sliding around the buoys without losing "the green,"-the unbroken portion...
...while, astronomers tried to explain how such ordinary-looking stars could produce large quantities of radio waves. But they made no progress, and two years ago Dr. Schmidt made things worse. With Dr. Jesse Greenstein, Schmidt photographed the spectra of four of the radio-loud "stars" with the 200-in. Palomar telescope and found evidence of ultraviolet light that had increased in wave length until it became visible light...
Fastest and Farthest. Such wave lengthening, which astronomers call a "red shift," is the familiar tool used to measure the speed of objects moving away from the earth. The fastest of the mysterious objects measured by Dr. Schmidt proved to be speeding away at 76,000 miles per second, which is about half of the speed of light...
...wears a lascivious grin where his satirical smile ought to be. The result, spelled out in dialogue that sounds like a series of gamy punch lines, is one of the longest traveling-salesman stories ever committed to film. Like all dirty jokes, it will probably evoke a shock wave of self-conscious laughter and pass swiftly into oblivion...