Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal (still to be approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff) are the Boeing-built Bomarc ground-to-air missile and its bomber-spotting SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System) electronics net. Four weeks ago, the new 400-mile Bomarc B failed for the seventh time in seven test flights. The test bugs and other difficulties, White testified, delayed the whole production schedule so that the last of the whole 1,000-missile anti-bomber system would not be in place until 1964, when the threat of Soviet bombers would be long since displaced by Soviet missiles. Similarly...
...instead of 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. weekdays. The boudoir bit was altogether something different. Passed last week by the legislature, and ready for Governor William Egan's signature, was an act that entitles honor prisoners in the state prison to take seven-day furloughs, once every six months, to visit their homes and families at their own expense...
...Madison began to show up in the Negro sections of Midwestern cities about seven months ago, is spreading across the country with the enthusiastic backing of the recordmakers. Amy Records came out with a single a month ago. Columbia followed a fortnight later with The Madison Time, hired two teen-age demonstration teams, sent them out on tour to plug the new dance. Jocks who play the records on the air find themselves deluged with teenage mail. As far west as San Francisco, reported KEWB Program Director Bill Enis last week, the Madison is "picking up like gangbusters...
Author Crowther retells the familiar story of how the ambitious son of Russian immigrants parlayed ownership of a Haverhill, Mass, nickelodeon into the Hollywood eminence that earned him the highest salary in the U.S. for seven years in a row ($1,139,992 in 1943). What makes the biography unusual is the gossip columnist's relish with which normally dignified Critic Crowther rummages through Mayer's private life...
...Institution on Cape Cod, Ewing conducted gravity studies from the submarine Barracuda, designed and built a much-improved camera to picture the ocean bottom. Impressed by the distance that explosion waves travel through sea water, he tried to sell the Navy on using them for communication. But not until seven years later, in 1944, did his system get a trial. Then he proved that waves from a 4-lb. depth charge exploded 4,000 ft. below the ocean's surface can be heard 1,200 miles away. This communication method is now called SOFAR (sound fixing and ranging...