Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 25 reports that were rushed to him through the evening and night. At 5 a.m., he was up for a briefing in the basement Situation Room of the White House. Before breakfast, he was on the phone twice to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "He has a mental alarm clock," said Presidential Press Secretary George Christian. "He's working like a dog, keeping tabs on everything...
...more flexible in operation than radar tracking. It is known as VASCAR (Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder) and consists of a small computer mounted in the front seat of a patrol car. By measuring time and distance and then converting them into an average-speed reading, it can clock automobiles coming, going or even crossing...
Test by Trials. By following the same procedure, highway police can get the speed of approaching cars. If the patrolman has measured and locked in the distance between two fixed points in advance, he can park unobtrusively off the road, clock the speed of motorists simply by turning the timer on and off as they go past. Already in use in 14 states and now being evaluated by 33 others, VASCAR, which was invented by Arthur M. Marshall, a Richmond real estate agent and lifelong tinkerer, will soon come out in a more sophisticated form, with a digital computer...
...Five o'clock I call...
...clock one morning last week, 200 Suffolk County police quietly drove up to the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York. Entering the dormitories, they pulled out 21 students-as well as eleven nonstudents found on the premises-and arrested them on charges of selling or possessing drugs. Later, eleven more youths were picked up off campus, bringing the arrest total to 43-thus making it the nation's largest campus crackdown so far on drug users...