Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build up his following among the party's rank and file. Last summer, while Mao was on a trip to southern China, Liu's faction called an emergency meeting of the party's Central Committee to try to vote Mao out of power. But Mao got wind of the meeting and managed to have it postponed until his return. Then he declared all-out war on Liu. Red Guard cartoons began depicting the gaunt, grey President as licking the boots of American imperialists; wall posters denounced him as a capitalist-lover and a traitor...
...displayed 64 electronic instruments and gadgets. Some of the most notable-or at least most audible-new products on view: >The Conn Corp.'s "multi-vider," a transistorized digital computer the size of a cigar box, which, when hooked up to an amplifier and a microphone in a wind instrument, enables the musician to play as loudly as he wishes. He can also duplicate his notes over as many as four octaves, add reverberation or tremolo, and lighten or darken his tone quality. Vox has a similar device called an "ampliphonic stereo multi-voice" unit, to which a pedal...
What is sparking the switch to electricity is of course the success of the amplified guitar in the rock-'n'-roll sound. By gimmicking other instruments, manufacturers hope to tune in on the bustling sales that guitars have enjoyed in recent years. In addition, amplified wind instruments, with their ability to project normally dulcet tones and make small ensembles sound larger, may also find markets in the jazz, dance and school-band fields...
...soared close to Japan's Mount Fuji on a cloudless day in March 1966, a BOAC 707 jet was suddenly battered by tremendous gusts of wind that broke it apart. All 124 persons aboard were killed. High over Wyoming in equally clear skies in March 1967, a United Air Lines 720 jet was wrenched into an 8,000-ft. plunge. Inside the cabin, a passenger was flung against the ceiling and fatally injured...
...apparently does leave a track. Turbulence tests conducted by NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration indicate that there may be a significant temperature difference between the air masses on either side of a wind shear. To scientists at North American Aviation's autonetics division, these findings seemed to provide an answer. Wherever there are sudden temperature variations in clear air, they surmised, there must also...