Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What then is in this season without also being out-outspoken, outrageous or out of sight? Movies. All three networks will unreel miles of movies, not only made-for-TV slickies but also an impressive array of recent hits from commercial theaters. Among them: Yellow Submarine, Patton, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, In the Heat of the Night and Love Story...
...floors, and there are no commuter straps above the cantilevered seats-the system hopes to provide each rider with a seat. Electronic equipment maintains a running check on each train's mechanical health. There are automatic doors, air conditioning and stations glowing in a dazzling, multicolored array of huge graphics, enamel murals, mosaic columns and Fiberglas reliefs...
...Westerners and Southerners who want to meet the Yankee and see New England, can do so by straying no further than the De-Cordova Museum, off Route 2 in Lincoln. In a matter of rooms, you can see the land and seascapes of the Northeast in all their seasonal array as well as the wrinkled and pimpled, more often than not smiling, faces of the people who live there...
...that Pioneer was hit by 56 tiny meteoroids, or about 50% more than expected. Fortunately, these impacts, detected by pressure drops in Pioneer's 234 specially designed external gas cells, have not caused any significant damage. In the asteroid belt, Pioneer will use more sophisticated sensors: an array of four small telescopes that have been aligned to measure the brightness, speed and direction of passing particles, and a sensitive light-measuring photopolarimeter that should glean even more detailed information from the reflected light of nearby asteroids...
...trees are sickening and dying. The pollution has also caused some frightening and hitherto unknown illnesses among humans. First came the so-called Minamata Disease, caused by a fertilizer plant dumping methyl mercury into a bay near the town of Minamata; it produced in its victims an appalling array of eye and brain damages. Another painful new disease called itai-itai (literally, ouch-ouch) derived from cadmium flowing into the Jintsu River from a mining and smelting factory. Its symptoms: a softening and finally a breaking of the bones. Then, two years ago, a wave of smog-associated complaints began...