Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week workmen will hoist the final structural steel beam into place for Atlanta's 26-story Life Insurance Co. of Georgia building. Los Angeles will celebrate the similar "topping out" of its tallest building yet, the 42-story, $30 million Union Bank Square. In Manhattan, wreckers have just begun smashing a ramshackle clutch of century-old eyesores to make room for the world's highest skyscrapers, the twin 110-story 1,350-ft. structures of the Port of New York Authority's World Trade Center.* Boston's State Street Bank & Trust Co. is busy shifting...
...laser beam penetrate steel...
...produce a hologram, light from a laser is split into two beams, one of which is directed by a mirror onto a sheet of photographic film. The other beam is used to illuminate the subject. When the laser light hits the subject, it is scattered by the irregular surface and reflected back toward the film. As a result, many of the reflected light waves are jumbled and out of phase both with each other and with the light from the undisturbed beam reflected by the mirror. When the light waves from subject and mirror are reunited at the surface...
Holography Handicaps. To pluck a hologram and release its light waves, a laser beam is passed through it. As the laser beam hits the hologram's interference pattern, it is diffracted into light waves that duplicate those that were reflected from the subject. The viewer sees the subject of the picture in three dimensions, apparently suspended behind the hologram at the same distance it was from the sheet of film...
...Moore, commander of the 1st Air Cavalry's famed 3rd Brigade (TIME, Feb. 11), found the post company waiting with a big cake and a roaring chorus of Happy Birthday. Recollecting that he'd turned 44 that day, Colonel Moore broke out a bottle of Jim Beam bourbon and warmly toasted 1) the President of the U.S., 2) victory in South Viet Nam, and 3) "the loyal, brave and great infantry soldier who has to run around tired, stinking dirty, with wet feet, under enemy fire. God bless...