Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Telephones with automatic worldwide dialing, TV screens for face-to-face phone conversations.
For nearly six months, peak-nosed Airman William P. (for Powell) Lear, 54, a restless, uninhibited manufacturer-inventor (Lear, Inc.), has been flying his Cessna 310 plane around Europe on a businessman's crusade. He wanted to show Europeans how simple and safe it was to fly their own...
No Secrets. Then came the explosion. The U.S. embassy in Moscow ordered Lear to explain what he was doing there, said that all his automatic flight equipment was banned under NATO embargo from sale to the Reds.
The British army called it "Operation Lucky Alphonso," but few recent military operations have been less fortunate. In the first place, the 5,000 crack troops combing out the 65 square miles of Cyprus' rugged Troodos Mountains were not quite sure what they were looking for. Intelligence officers had...
Superficially, says Wilson, the Outsider is just a social misfit, a "hole-in-corner man." In novels he sits in his room by the hour, spends days observing other men's lives. In real life an Outsider type like Van Gogh lived 29 of his 36 years before he...