Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sheriff," snorted a Kennedy aide) but to finance a razzle-dazzle, all-out fight. In the last 72 hours Kennedy poured out $40,000 for radio and television time. Then there were such shrewdly employed pitchmen as Franklin Roosevelt Jr., who exploited New Deal nostalgia to good effect...
...days the Egyptian passenger-freighter Cleopatra has been dockbound in Manhattan, immobilized and unloaded because of a picket line thrown up by the Seafarers International Union (TIME, May 9). The union complained that Nasser's discrimination against ships touching at Israeli ports was, in effect, unfair to U.S. labor. No one questioned the legitimacy of the seamen's grievances, but Nasser angrily retaliated by declaring a counter-boycott of all U.S. shipping. The trouble spread quickly to other Moslem nations, including such carefully cultivated friends of the U.S. as Tunisia and Libya. The enraged Arab nations...
When an inhabited satellite orbits 2,200 miles above the earth, its crew will be riddled by the fast-moving protons of the inner Van Allen radiation belt. If unshielded, the spacemen will be inflicted with about 3,000 rem (the unit of radiation effect on human tissue) per week many times more than a lethal dose. Even if the satellite stays below the Van Allen radiation, its crew may still be in peril...
...normal 1-G field. "It looks as if they get a stoppage of the gut," he says. "After all, at 4-Gs their hearts were pumping fluid with the normal density of molten iron." At the present point in their experiments, neither Wunder nor Smith cares to predict the effect on the human body of space-age gravitational changes. But the logical extension of the test results so far would indicate that a child growing up on the moon, with its .16-G force, would have light bones. And the legs of a lady on Jupiter, with...
...costly oil - pressured the Government to impose import quotas to protect them from cheaper foreign oil. Such regulatory groups as the Texas Railroad Commission make a concerted effort to prevent flooded markets by limiting production (a method that has prevented any real oil glut in the U.S.), thus in effect helping to keep up prices. The foreign oil-producing nations frown on price cuts, which nip at oil profits. Venezuela recently stopped three U.S. independents from selling Lake Maracaibo crude at $1.50 to $2 per bbl. when the posted price...