Word: beams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City Superintendent Calvin Gross [Nov. 15] appears to be a laser beam cutting into the Stygian morass called American education. If this is really true, I may be coaxed into returning to the classroom firing line as a teacher...
...Pulsed Beam. Working in an all but echoless 10-ft. by 13-ft. room lined with sound-absorbing wedges of glass fiber, Lockheed's scientists have set up a sort of searchlight with a sound generator in its throat. The researcher sits in a chair, covers his eyes with a blindfold and presses a button with his right hand. Out of the searchlight comes a beam of noise, 50 pulses per second, which sounds like a distant chorus of crickets and spring peepers. The mixed frequencies are higher than human ears normally hear, but the researchers have found that...
...left hand the blindfolded subject holds a tiller by which he can swing the sound beam, searching for test objects-small wires, lengths of pipe, pieces of cloth-hung at random from the chamber's roof. When the beam hits a target, an echo comes back, and from the character of that echo an experienced listener can tell an amazing amount about the target...
...forceful, two-story post-and-beam structure, with walls of diagonal redwood siding, brings space and plastic interest to what would otherwise be that modern cliche, the box house. The J. H. Pomeroy Co. is selling the house at its Tahoe Keys development at Lake Tahoe, Calif., for approximately $45,000 with...
...took some tests that seemed, at first glance, to have nothing to do with mental ability. They were asked to show how steady they could hold their hands, how fast they could wiggle their index fingers, how fast a light could flicker before they saw it as a steady beam. Such studies were to show how well the nervous system was functioning at the physiological level. There were other tests that dealt with reactions to abstract patterns, and that graded the subjects on ability to understand and remember what they heard and read. Because of little-understood crossovers...