Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many RFA's thought that if the Army wanted to keep basic training eight weeks long, then they should have been taught how to handle more than the M-1 rifle, at present the only weapon seen during the eight-week period. Since in war time, anyone might be called...
Chief advantages claimed for the Convair heart: its gentle hydraulic action is less damaging to the blood; its flowmeter is in the water system, not in the bloodstream itself, further reducing damage; by ingenious servomechanisms it provides automatic control of oxygenation and acidity; it can handle up to two gallons...
Except for peeks at the optical display and conversation with the ground, the pilot will have little to do in his orbit around the earth. An automatic attitude sensor will operate the gas jets that keep the capsule from rolling. Then, at a signal from the ground or from the...
If capsule and pilot can survive this crisis, the capsule will slow to something like the speed of sound without much further trouble. An automatic mechanism will break out a small, tough drogue parachute, simultaneously releasing a puff of chaff (reflecting metal foil) to help watching radars to pick up...
I imagine Walter Lippmann was not left undismayed by your statement, "He is undismayed by the fact that many of his readers might find it hard to distinguish between his solutions and those preferred by the Kremlin [Dec. 22]." Are all solutions for resolving the cold war tension destined to...