Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Through pattering rain, ten armed soldiers and three officers marched up the driveway of the San Salvador mansion of President Jose Maria Lemus at 10'clock one morning last week. The group's leader drew his pearl-handled Luger pistol, rapped discreetly at the door, waited. The door opened, and there stood Lemus- barefoot, wearing blue pajamas. "What's up?'' he asked. "You are no longer President, my colonel," said the officer. "In fact, you are under arrest...
...long time in modern science; many spectacular things, such as atomic bomb explosions, happen much faster. Therefore scientists are forever striving for more accurate measurement of time. In the latest Physical Review Letters, Harvard Physicists H. Mark Goldenberg. Daniel Kleppner and Norman F. Ramsey tell about a new electronic clock that they hope will keep time with an accuracy of one part in i million billion. This is equivalent to making an error of only one second in 30 million years...
...Harvard clock a thin trickle of hydrogen gas flows through an apparatus that splits its two-atom molecules into single atoms. Each of these atoms has one proton and one electron, but some of them have slightly more energy than the others because their electrons are spinning in a different way. When the atom stream shoots through a system of magnets, the low-energy atoms in it are deflected sideways while the high-energy ones converge, pass through a small hole in a 6-in. quartz bulb. The bulb is lined with paraffin which does not affect the atom...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street from four to six o'clock on the first Sunday of each month, beginning November 6. Members of the faculties and others holding Corporation appointments and their wives or husbands are cordially invited...
...Rummage-sale workers can have a "good laugh" when a stolen alarm clock in a shopping bag goes off. "Some of the customers are real sharpies who can steal pants from under coats, stuff costume jewelry into their sleeves and pockets, and exchange their own shoes and purses at the rummage counters with a magician's skill...