Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GUIDANCE SYSTEMS: Contractors are General Motors' AC Spark Plug Division, American Bosch Arma Corp., General Electric Co., Burroughs Corp., Remington Rand Univac Division and Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...advance segment of the memoirs of the occasionally printable author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, and it makes a readable, sometimes hilarious appetizer to a more thorough work scheduled to come out early next year under the title Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch...
...world's largest shopping center (1.387,000 sq. ft. of retail selling space), an office center (50 acres) and an industrial center (123 acres). More than 1,000,000 sq. ft. of industrial space has already been built and is being used by such firms as American Bosch Arma, Pepsi-Cola Bottling, Sperry Rand Marine Division, Graybar Electric...
...four different tempos simultaneously. High point is the slow movement, with a serene duo that floats calmly past the violent thrusts of the other two voices. The Variations for Orchestra (1955) is a big (25 minutes), brilliant work as rich in detail-but not so grotesque-as a Hieronymus Bosch painting...
Guidance Problem. For advanced missiles, guidance is a more serious problem than propulsion. Two guiding systems are of obvious value for an ICBM, and both are being developed. One, under contracts with American Bosch Arma, AC Spark Plug and M.I.T., is "inertial guidance." Its heart is a subtle instrument that senses every force that acts on the flying missile, the enormous force of the rocket thrust and the delicate forces of crosswinds and yawing motions. This information goes to a computer (contracts with Burroughs and Sperry Rand) that figures out the missile's position, speed and direction...