Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machine that can virtually take you any place in any time." The big steel dumbbell is a German-made Zeiss planetarium projector, 12 ft. high weighing 5,500 lbs., with 27,000 parts. Images are beamed up from the two large spheres at either end of the projector. Its control booth, situated at the edge of the auditorium, looks like the cockpit of a spaceship. A three-panel console has 150 buttons and 70 knobs. To bring out a star, the operator pushes two black buttons simultaneously and turns a rheostat marked STAR...
...Christmas conference in Geneva that two key members of the U.S. delegation flew home for the holidays, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko announced plans to depart for Moscow, and arrangements were made for reporters to be briefed extensively in the U.S. on the details of the new arms control treaty. In Washington, the White House alerted the TV networks that President Carter might be making a major statement that they would want to broadcast live. There was speculation a similar statement would be made in Moscow by Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. The two leaders, it was assumed, would...
Opposition in the Senate, where the fate of the treaty would be decided, will probably be led by Democrat Jackson. Before it reaches the floor, the pact has to pass through his Subcommittee on Arms Control. He argues that while the pact establishes numerical equality in weaponry, it fails to take into account the greater size and power of Soviet missiles...
Experts believe that continued synthesis of plant hormones my someday enable man to control completely the frequency and size of crop production...
...chances of Senate approval will almost certainly improve as the White House begins lobbying for the treaty. To allay some critics' fears, the Administration will stress that it is increasing defense spending to counter the Kremlin's continuing military buildup. The new head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Lieut. General George Seignious II, points out that SALT II "is going to require additional money to modernize the strategic systems we have...