Word: calling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Berlin there was gloom over the drift of events. Last week Mayor Brandt, who has always in the past opposed big-power conferences on Berlin because the West can only give something away, endorsed Macmillan's new summit call on the ground that a confrontation is needed before his city is nibbled to death. Now that Macmillan and Khrushchev have practically named the date, Berliners look for some sort of crisis soon after the inauguration of the next U.S. President...
Grooves on the Neck. An unidentified mummy clearly was too much for Rhyl's local police force, and the call went out for expert help. The Home Office sent Pathologist Dr. Gerald Evans and Biologist Dr. Alan Clift. Entomologists studied the dead moths and flies found in the closet. Also enlisted was a London University Egyptologist who was a specialist on ancient mummies. For weeks the experts studied their find. Unwrapping and comparing a 2,500-year-old mummy from Liverpool University, they measured the shrinkage of the bones to determine that the woman had died two decades...
...been stretched?" he thundered. With a sigh. Dr. Clift replied that he had not. Had the stocking really looked like a rope, as Clift had testified? Clift paused, then admitted: "It was not twisted as a rope is twisted, but it reminded me of rope." Snapped Rankin: "And you call yourself an expert?" With that, Clift fainted dead away on the witness stand. The government's case collapsed with him. After the adjournment, Britain's embarrassed Solicitor General, Sir Jocelyn Simon, rose with a prosecutor's motion that the murder charge be quashed. "I agree entirely," said...
...years passed and technological requirements became even more devastatingly precise, the bar's accuracy was no longer good enough. A master standard must be at least ten times more accurate than the practical measuring systems that are derived from it, and modern industry began to call for tolerances expressed in millionths of an inch. An error of this infinitesimal order in a gyro guidance system might send a space probe to the wrong planet, millions of miles off the track...
More pressure on Carey to surrender came from another quarter. Rather than call a strike, the I.U.E. representatives negotiating a new contract with Westinghouse Electric accepted the company's offer with only a few modifications that did not raise the cost of the total package...