Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed a voting-booth arrangement where visitors can use American voting machines to choose their favorite display. Said Khrushchev coldly: "I have no interest in that." He ignored the models in the fashion show, brushed aside the RAMAC computer that automatically answers 4,000 questions about the U.S. "To shoot off rockets, we have computers," he said, "and they are just as complicated as this...
...Live." The wildest attempt to shoot down the bill came from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters and their lobbyist, Sid Zagri (TIME, July 27), but the quiet power play came from none other than A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself. Making a personal trip to Speaker Sam Rayburn's office last fortnight, cigar-chomping George Meany growled out the facts of life as he saw them. Labor, longtime friend of the Democrats, could not live with the bill as it was being written, he warned. "We can't live with the hot-cargo clause...
...meson, both of which go off the picture leaving strong curved tracks. The anti-lambda (3) turns into an antiproton and a positive pi meson. The positive pi meson goes off the picture, but the antiproton hits a proton (4), creating two negative and two positive pi mesons, which shoot up and down the chamber...
...Circus (Allied Artists) is an attempt by Producer Irwin (The Sea Around Us) Allen to shoot the rapids of the old DeMille stream. Under 120,000 sq. yds. of studio canvas (v. about 80,000 sq. ft. for a Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey big top), he presents a parade of stars-from a plumper Peter Lorre as a white-face clown to Mrs. Bing Crosby on a flying trapeze-and backs them up with everything from lion tamers and wire walkers to the Ronnie Lewis Trio, the Flying Alexanders, and Hugo Zacchini. the Human Cannon Ball. But as Ringmaster...
...might be called the Jewish Edgar Guest, too, but at his best, the cigar-chewing editor does evoke the old Rogers twang. Golden on the U.S. Astronauts: "Having found the perfect man, it seems the last place they should send him is to the moon. They ought to shoot off the least qualified man, because we need the best man like we never needed him before...