Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...With pay so small, why was the bribe so high? Explained one candid hopeful: "Any Deputy is sure to be invited to become a bank director-at $4,000 a year. Also, there's always the wayward young man whose parents will pay $1,500 to spring him from jail. And then a Deputy gets immunity from police searches of his car. Any time he drives out to the country, he can load up with $1,000 worth of hashish...
Tanned, relaxed and obviously happy after six honeymooning Caribbean weeks ("It would not surprise her family or friends," reported the Hearst Headline Service, "if she bore her first child before spring"), Britain's Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones returned...
...serenely stabilized platform are mounted three spring-suspended weights, each to keep track of motion in a different direction. The lagging behind (or pushing ahead) of each weight is reported to a computer that works out the missile's speed and direction. The computer has been told in advance what course the missile should follow to hit a selected target. If the actual course and speed deviate from this course, the computer makes corrections. When the missile has reached the correct top speed, the computer cuts off the rocket fuel. An error of one foot per second at this...
...most disappointing characteristic of the economy was the lack of a strong spring housing upturn. But such weak spots have failed to check the slow general expansion of the economy. Commented Dr. Marcus Nadler, consulting economist of the Hanover Bank of Manhattan...
...Spring Music Festival (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A program of American folk songs from colonial times to the '30s includes a thorough anthology of the blues: talkin', big-city, and barrelhouse...