Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week a New York commission proposed that something-finally-be done about the Hudson. Headed and partly financed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller's conservation-minded brother Laurance, the commission urged that New York and New Jersey (which has 21 miles of the river's west bank) join with the Federal Government to form a Hudson River authority with major responsibility for cleaning up the river and ensuring orderly growth in the broad Hudson Valley. Estimated cost: $1.3 billion...
Earlier, the Russians had gone out of their way to tell the operators of Britain's giant 250-ft. Jodrell Bank radio telescope the precise frequency of Luna 9's transmissions. Forewarned, the British astronomers easily picked up and recorded the spacecraft's signals. Noting that they were suspiciously similar to ordinary wirephoto transmissions, the men at Jodrell Bank fed them into an ordinary facsimile machine hurriedly borrowed from London's Daily Express. The machine converted the signals into a light beam that varied in intensity as it mowed back and forth across photosensitive paper, producing...
...bear the thought of standing around as a spectator while Nash or somebody else won the race on his own home course. Besides, Brakeman Sergio Siorpaes had designed a faster, more maneuverable sled with motorcycle shock absorbers and a central pivot that permitted both sets of runners to bank independently on curves. "I have never felt more like racing," said Monti after testing the sled. Even a crash failed to dampen his enthusiasm: during practice last month, he was clattering through Cortina's Curva di Arrive at 65 m.p.h. when the new sled hit a hidden crevice and stopped...
...prime military and 41% of prime NASA contracts, aerospace is indispensable. With 33% of the state's 1,500,000 manufacturing employees on aerospace payrolls, California owes to the industry the fact that it is now the nation's most populous state. According to a Bank of America estimate, aerospace jobs have drawn at least 1,670,000 people to California in a decade...
Like almost all other aerospace companies, Lockheed is expending money and energy on projects that have little to do with air, much less space. Company engineers devised a computerized system for the Alameda-Contra Costa Counties (Calif.) Blood Bank that cut inventory losses in half in two months by keeping track of supplies; using that system, every blood bank in the U.S. could theoretically run from the same computer. Lockheed last year concocted plans for a statewide information-retrieval system that would theoretically enable California to keep a Big Brother-like watch on its citizens; with the help of computerized...