Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold wave which drove temperatures in Cambridge down to three degrees last night will continue until tonight. It will get warmer this evening, but light snow will make driving somewhat hazardous...
Hungry Camels. Long dismissed as a desert backwater with scant hope of achieving self-sufficiency, Jordan is astir. Last week 200 enthusiastic students checked in at the new University of Jordan, the country's first. In Amman, the advance wave of a Christmas tide of 25,000 Holy Land tourists gaped at the freshly built Amman Grand Hotel, a ten-story luxury hotel of white stone...
...experimental equipment consisted of two radio telescopes attached to the craft operating at very short radio wave lengths. The scientists were able to receive measurements made on the space craft giving them progress checks on the behavior of the telescopes on the cruise toward Venus...
Dishes & Holes. Parabolic dishes make by far the most versatile radio telescopes; they can be used to tune in on several wave lengths at the same time. The most famous dish, the 250-foot monster at Jodrell Bank, near Manchester. England, started work in 1957 and is still going strong. Probably the most effective dish is the 210-footer at Parkes, Australia. The biggest dish. 300 ft. in diameter, is at Green Bank...
...referendum seven times. While De Gaulle calls this process "direct democracy," constitutional lawyers object that the right to answer oui or non to a government's proposals is no substitute for democratic debate. De Gaulle shrugs aside such remonstrances. "Foam," he cries, "nothing but the foam of the wave. The depths of the popular wave are with me." The election results bore...