Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike was the latest and biggest in a wave of labor unrest that has swept Dictator Francisco Franco's Spain this spring. In Barcelona the Hispano Suiza airplane-engine plant recently laid off 150 employees following a series of work slowdowns, was forced to hire them back when j.ooo Olivetti factory employees threatened a sympathy walkout. Two sitdown strikes in a single week disrupted work in a Seville textile plant. Six hundred Madrid metalworkers have been threatening similar trouble after stubbornly refusing to sign a new contract...
Openly backing the latest wave of strikes are the priests of the Workers' Brotherhoods of Catholic Action and sev eral small but effective Catholic lay organizations that regularly blast the Can-ditto's tight controls on workers from beneath the sheltering wing of the church. One such group, the Young Christian Workers, publishes an uncensored and outspoken monthly bulletin, Juventud Obrera, that demands free, Western-style labor unions, lashes out at the anachronistic sindicatos, which fix prices and wages throughout the country. Said journal Editor Francisco Guerrero, 25, describing his mission last week: "Our work...
Until the last decade, nearly everything we know about the planets, stars, and galaxies came to us on light waves in the narrow, visible portion of the spectrum. Astronomers have likened the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum--which stretches from short-wave gamma rays at one end and the long radio waves at the other--to a tiny window looking out on the universe. Most of the revolution in modern astronomy stems from the design of instruments that have opened up new "windows" in the electromagnetic spectrum...
...outward around sun spots. During a flare, clouds of ionized hydrogen gas--protons and electrons--shoot out, filling interplanetary space with intense radiation. When these clouds encounter the earth and pass through the earth's magnetic field into the polar regions, they produce the northern lights, and cause short-wave radio transmission to fade or black...
There was always a considerable difference between the two dictatorial regimes. At its worst, Italian Fascism was not so ruthless or fanatical as Nazism. The Italians largely ignored Nazi demands that they persecute the Jews. When a wave of strikes broke out in 1943, Mussolini hesitated, eventually arrested some of the strikers and drafted others into the army. Hitler exploded: "That it is possible for people to stop work firmly in eight factories is for me unthinkable. I am convinced that if one shows the slightest weakness in such a case, one is lost...