Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflating big balloons in vacuum. A similar attempt last winter failed when the balloon burst because of too much gas pressure (TIME, Jan. 26). Last week's success means that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will soon try to put Echo II, its bigger and better radio wave reflector (passive communication satellite), in a high, shining orbit for the world...
...sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle, and keens a somber threnody on Spanish guitar strings. The cross-cultural music is apt, for this is Spanish Harlem, known in Manhattan as "El Barrio," home to the huddled masses of the postwar wave of Puerto Rican immigration. The ingredients of this melting pot are concrete, corruption, and the vast hurrying indifference of the megalopolis. This is where the new American is made the hard way-out of pain, dirt, disease, violence and death...
...detailed results of official U.S. and British experiments with new seismic instruments have not yet been made public, but nonofficial seismologists state emphatically that earthquakes and bomb tests are quite different, that they send distinctly different wave patterns through the earth. Another important difference is that most earthquakes are caused by rock movements many miles below the surface. This vertical distance can be measured accurately; if it is too great, the waves almost surely will not have come from a test. It is not likely, say the seismologists dryly, that even the most industrious Communists will explode secret tests...
...from the Greek mainland. The Dracone-which gets its name from the Greek word for serpent-was conceived during the 1956 Suez crisis by British Engineer William Rede Hawthorne, 49. Seeking a quick way to build up Western Europe's oil-hauling capacity, Hawthorne began experimenting in a wave tank with sausage skins filled with alcohol. But soon there was a glut of oil tankers-and European refineries had no more need for sausage barges. Hawthorne began to think of using them with other loads in remote places. Dracones are cheap (from...
Culligan dismisses the company's financial plight with a wave of the hand: "Bankers love people who say, 'I'll double my profits next year.' " Already he has mapped out "national blitz-selling" campaigns, a "multilevel selling program." and a pride of new "inside" efficiencies. Culligan is confident that two heads will serve Curtis better than one. and for "in side man" he has chosen Vice President Clay Blair, 37, former Post managing editor. "It's a two-man job," he says, "as long as it's clear who's running the show...