Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some places have grown into nightclubs, notably Chicago's famed Second City and San Francisco's hungry 1; a few are still more or less beat, and suffer for it. The famed Gas House in Los Angeles' Venice West grows ever longer on sideburns and shorter on talent. Denver's Green Spider hides behind an exterior mural of a fat blonde nude dancing with a shocking-pink centaur, and has no entertainment except spontaneous poetry readings by bearded bards who specialize in dirty dactyls...
...operation at Chelsea (Mass.) Naval Hospital relieved the spasms, but Kennedy then found that his left leg was a quarter-inch shorter than his right, and the resulting seesaw effect tended increasingly to bring the spasms back. By 1954 he was a cripple on crutches. He hobbled into New York's Hospital for Special Surgery. Doctors tried a delicate spinal fusion. It failed, and Kennedy contracted a near-fatal staphylococcus infection. Another operation four months later was successful, and novocain treatments broke the cycle of muscle spasms. The President still must wear a quarter-inch riser in the heel...
Kahn is only halfway optimistic about even the shorter-term prospects. He is convinced that with clear, realistic thinking about national defense and substantial increases in defense spending, the U.S. can deter nuclear war in the 19605, or survive and recuperate if deterrence fails. But he is far from convinced that the required expenditures of thought and money will be forthcoming. "The capacity of Western governments and peoples to indulge in wishful thinking about military problems," he says, "is almost unlimited...
Charles Hard Townes, 45, saw no reason to waste time while he waited for a restaurant to open one morning ten years ago. So he sat on a park bench and pondered a problem in physics: how to produce microwaves shorter than any that had previously been generated. Before he got to breakfast, Townes thought he had the answer?and four years later he completed a device that proved he was correct. It was a maser, in which hopped-up ammonia molecules were made to serve as an atomic clock of unequaled accuracy. Since then, Townes's maser has been...
Southern's 139 pilots and copilots, all ALPA members, walked off their jobs last June when Hulse turned down their demands for shorter hours, a boost in wages (captains were making an average of $13,000 annually) and changes in the working rules, notably the elimination of a clause in the company's manual that prohibits married pilots from dating stewardesses. Hulse said that the demands would boost the line's operating expenses $665,000 a year, and since he is already getting $3,200,000 a year in government subsidy, he was not at all sure...