Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bulldozers to push several steel huts up close to the fire. From these, Gassi Touil roustabouts will spray water high into the air to form a cooling curtain for Adair and his men as they move in to attach hooks to the twisted remains of GT-2's rig and blown-out pipe, and winch the debris out of the way. Then a bulldozer will maneuver explosives on the end of a 200-ft. boom right up to the flames. If all goes right, the blast will snuff out the fire by momentarily interrupting the flow...
...mind their long classroom hours-up to 24 hours per week-but complain about the lack of teaching aids, notably for science courses. "There's no electricity for physics demonstrations," says Penn State's Donald Groff, 22, who teaches in Accra, "so I have to rig up homemade apparatus with wires and batteries. But we manage somehow...
Grinding up Oregon's 12,000-ft. Canyon Creek Pass one recent evening, the drivers of three mammoth trailer trucks stared in astonishment as a Pacific Intermountain Express Co. rig with a huge load and a notably undersized engine compartment blithely pulled past them. Driving the P.I.E. truck was a power plant that marked a long step forward in U.S. engine design; the V8-265 Vine diesel turned out by Cummins Engine. Co. of Columbus, Ind. Built on a new (for diesels) over-square* design, the Vine is as much as 44% smaller and lighter than other comparable diesels...
...dark, save for the rosy glow from the pilot light. On the broad panel-set roughly equidistant from two woofered and tweetered speaker assemblies in massive cabinets-is an array of switches, dials and knobs. This is not the cockpit of the X-15; it is a modern stereophonic rig. Tuner off. Amplifier on. Selector switch on RIAA. All niters out. Left volume control on #5. Right volume control on #5. Turntable spinning at 33⅓ r.p.m. A metal arm glides with feathery softness over the record. For the moment, the speakers are switched off. Instead, from a tangle...
Like any new toy, stereo at first appealed largely to only a narrow group. The early stereo owner was the status-conscious fellow in the neighborhood-he already had a Mercedes or didn't quite have the cash for one. In the wellappointed bachelor apartment, the stereo rig replaced the traditional etchings as a lure for the nubile. His costly equipment consisted of two speakers, two amplifiers, a special cartridge for his record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides...