Word: traveller
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...train carried enough technical gear to stock a sophisticated physics laboratory. To test how the jolts, noises and vibrations of railroad travel will affect the warheaded Minuteman, sensitive oscilloscopes and oscillographs registered every rock and wriggle. Loudspeakers and telephones linked the communications HQ with the other ten cars (one boxcar that housed a jeep, two tank cars for water and diesel fuel, seven air-conditioned "quarters cars"-including one with stereo set, radio, TV). When the train stopped, crewmen stepped out and limbered up, but could wander no farther than 150 yards-earshot range. A sharp command from the single...
...months of hard labor, they live in primitive villages and tackle man-sized jobs: a youth center in Senegal, a small hospital in Cameroon, a library in Liberia. To test their changing attitudes toward Africa, a researcher from M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies has gone along to travel from group to group talking to the students; he will later return to the villages to see what lingering impression the students have made on the Africans...
Obliging Greeks. To supply the 20 million bbl. of oil that Cuba burns each year, between 15 and 25 tankers will have to travel constantly between the Black Sea and Cuba. A group of "golden Greek" tanker operators, led by the wealthy Stavros Niarchos, has signed an agreement to charter between 80 and 120 tankers to the Soviet Union. Niarchos piously denies that any of the ships will be used to carry oil to Cuba-but, of course, the deal frees Russian tankers to do the job. Even so, Castro could be heading for trouble. On one of his recent...
...root of the problem, says McCrea. is that light does not travel at infinite speed, and other influences such as gravitation are presumably just as slow. So when distant parts of the universe interact by attracting or irradiating each other, they do so only after a long delay...
...students can finish college, go on to graduate school and embark on a profession while they are still quite young. As for the teachers, they can either earn one-third more money each year or, by working only two of the shortened semesters, find more time for research and travel. So far, Pitt has had no trouble signing up faculty members to staff the program...