Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Dixie, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley proved that in the rock-'n'-roll business it helps to be daffy. In Charlotte, N.C. he deeply impressed the local Observer's observer: "Presley burst onto the stage, staggering and flailing like a moth caught in a beam of light." Flouncing down to Charleston, S.C., the twitchy bobby-soxers' twitchy idol made an even deeper impression upon the press. The local News & Courier sent one of its newshens, customarily safe in its education department, to try to talk to Presley and photograph him. As she aimed...
Grandfatherly Beam. At week's end Ike drove to Gettysburg accompanied by two VIPs who were his weekend house guests: grandchildren David and Barbara Anne. While the President played the Gettysburg golf course, little David practiced his shots under the eye of Pro Dick Sleichter, then followed his grandfather's party around the back nine. Said Sleichter: "You'll be able to beat your father and your grandfather before many years." Father was not present to hear the warning, but grandfather beamed...
...Cambridge electrons will move at almost but not quite the speed of light, which is the absolute speed limit of the universe. If one of them were to start around the earth at the same time as a beam of light, it would be racing only five inches behind when the beam had made the circuit and reached its starting point...
...necessary. But most businessmen lump under automation all automatic machines and processes, including the giant tools that follow directions punched on a tape, huge computers that make thousands of intricate mathematical calculations in a fraction of a second, gauges that check fractions of a hairbreadth with a tiny beam of light...
...David Crane and his wellrounded bride (he marries Virginia in strip No. 17) struggle to beam the Light of the World on what the Hall Syndicate calls "an average sort of town filled with average sort of people, all of whom have warm, human stories." Differences in faith, doctrine and observance are passed lightly by, though later sequences are planned to build up a priest and a rabbi as community heroes. Idea for the strip came from Robert M. Hall, president of the Hall Syndicate, though many another syndicate had considered and rejected it as too controversial to handle. Apparently...