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...transmits the electricity stored up in his body to a neon tube, which then glows. At an ingenious IBM exhibit called Mathematica, designed by Charles and Ray Eames, bulbs light up to demonstrate what happens when a number is squared or cubed. After a tour through a giant animated atom, students can test their newly acquired knowledge on a teaching machine...
...Department of Defense, which ordered the satellites from Space Technology Laboratories, and the Atomic Energy Commission, which supplied their instruments, insist that they are only innocent research devices aimed at learning how to detect atom tests in space. They are, in fact, a nuclear testing control system already in successful operation. The satellites launched last fall have been working perfectly three months longer than their expected life; their builders think they will stay on the job for at least nine months more without giving trouble. The two that were fired aloft last week should have an even longer life...
Most scientific contributions to military technology are aimed at future war, a far-off, fast-racing conflict between supersonic bombers, atom-armed missiles and man-carrying spacecraft. But more mundane problems have not been neglected by the men in laboratories. With none of the rocket-boosted publicity that swirls around multimillion-dollar projects, technicians are busily turning out new weapons to use on such nasty contemporary difficulties as riots at home and small-scale insurrection abroad. Behind all these devices is the concept of "necessary minimum force," which means no more power than is necessary to disperse rioters without killing...
GENERAL ELECTRIC. Part of the outside wall revolves, taking six auditoriums full of people around Walt Disney's puppet drama of domestic electricity. In the building's core, there is a show about the universe on the dome and a display of atom fusion in the basement...
Even in the age of the atom, steel is still the vital measure of industrial might. The Soviet Union has made it national policy to catch up with U.S. steel production, the world's largest, and the other large steel producing nations never cease jockeying for advantage. Since World War II, no nation has reached for big steel status with more success than Japan, whose industry is among the world's most advanced and whose exports have raised the ire of competitors in both the U.S. and Europe. Now Japan has taken over from West Germany...