Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reach of election computers; voters, says Dr. Hammer, will be able to call in their ballots without leaving their homes. As an optimistic scientist, he sees the problems of identification of voters as an engineering problem that will soon be solved. Someday, he says, a huge data bank may contain "voice prints" of eligible voters. Then, the mere sound of their voice on the telephone as they call in their choice, will verify their right to a ballot...
...human nerves, increasing irritability and decreasing normal brain function. Like any metal poison, lead is fatal if enough is ingested. In the auto's 70-year history, the average American's lead content has risen an estimated 125-fold, to near maximum tolerance levels. Arctic glaciers now contain wind-wafted lead...
...total mass of the galaxies, which contain all the stars and thus most of the known matter in the universe, is far too small to account for the declining rate at which the universe is expanding. The missing mass may now have been discovered. A Naval Research Laboratory scientist has found evidence that it exists in the form of a hot gas that fills the void between galaxies...
...Murder Cave. Not all environ ments contain figurative art. Buffalo's recent "Second Festival of the Arts Today," staged at the Albright-Knox Gallery (TIME, March 15), included five abstract environments. Drollest among them was the Pneumatic Garden of Eden, created by M.I.T.'s Otto Piene, in which huge, air-filled plastic tubes waved in the air like undersea coral growths in a darkened room lit at shin level by slowly flashing lights. Delicately disturbing was Lucas Samaras' Mirrored Room No. 2, part of the Albright's permanent collection. The room (see overleaf) was plated with...
...pitching side, starter Bob Lincoln and reliever Bob Dorwart allowed men on base in all but one inning but still managed to contain the Lion attack...