Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millionth of the energy needed to split the nucleus of an atom-the scientists devised an ingenious technique. Light from a 200-watt mercury vapor lamp was focused on a diffraction grating, which, like a prism, broke up the beam into its constituent rainbow of colors, its separate wave lengths of light. By rotating the grating to a carefully calculated angle, the scientists were able to reflect light of a single, specific wave length at a target. Knowing the wave length, they were able to determine precisely the energy of the photons-or bits of light-they were using...
Beginning with the light of shortest wave length (and thus the highest energy), they aimed a beam from the grating through a Pyrex cylinder containing hydrogen and deuterium iodide gas, which breaks down when exposed to light. When molecules of deuterium iodide were struck by photons in the light beam, they split into fast-moving atoms of deuterium and sluggish, heavier atoms of iodine. Some of the speeding deuterium atoms in turn collided with hydrogen molecules in the cylinder, knocking off one of the hydrogen atoms and combining with the other to form deuterium hydride...
Bucharest lay stunned under the sticky assault of an 85° heat wave. Couples lounged inertly in the lilac-scented shade of the parks along Boulevard Magheru, sipped raspberry soda out of communal glasses, or took in the desultory lake breeze at the Pescarus Restaurant. Then, with an electric crackle, loudspeakers began to blare, and a tingle ran through the crowd...
Another talked-about film was Un Homme et Une Femme, a modest story of a simple love affair between a young widow (Anouk Aimée) and a racing-car driver (Jean-Louis Trintignant). New Wave Director Claude Lelouch, 28, shot the picture in four weeks, at one point had himself strapped with his camera to the hood of a speeding car to get realistic footage of the races. The crusty critics even applauded during the showing, rated the film as an homme-dinger, a top contender for the festival's first prize, the Golden Palm...
...persisted in their crime beyond the cutoff date. If Ponti and his pals find that less than pleasing, they are no angrier than the cops who have to go out and catch many of the freed offenders all over again. They also have to deal with a new crime wave every time an amnesty is even considered. To be sure, current offenders do not qualify for the amnesty, but they act as if they think they do. Evidently Italians who do not obey the law do not read it either...