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...ultimate in airport design [Nov. 30] will come in a few years when a stretcher will pick us up in the airport parking lot, where we lie down holding a magnetic encoded ticket that enables the conveyor system to switch us through the checking-in procedure and onto the plane. Then we can say to the fellow on the next stretcher: "Remember the old days when we had to walk nearly half a mile...
...work. That's why they run off to Yale on weekends. And they don't connect the academic with their lives." An equally nasty remark from "a sharp-eyed Brooklyn College senior" prefaces this insult from "a faculty member": "I sometimes imagine that I see these girls on a conveyor belt which shuffles them through four years of college... to the altar and the kitchen...
...incoming flights, a conveyor moving at 500 feet per minute sweeps bags along the belt to the arrival room, where two dumping carts spill luggage to be claimed. The passenger, unless he is on fire, cannot beat his bag to the claim area...
...only responsibility left to the outgoing passenger is to place his luggage in individual trays on a conveyor belt, only 16 inches from the street curb. After that, the bags are tagged and weighed while still on the belt, their flight number transmitted by the ticket agent (into a binary decimal code) on a device like a small adding machine, and lifted mechanically to a massive, subterranean maze of conveyors. As they hit the main conveyor belt, the bags are moved 500 feet in one minute to an area below the loading building where they circuit slowly, for as long...
...linear accelerator. Most of the boron bullets missed, but a few scored a bull's-eye on californium nuclei. Atoms formed by the combination of californium and boron bounced off the nickel foil, were slowed by collision with helium atoms and were picked up by a copper conveyor belt. At intervals, an automatic device moved the copper belt a short distance, bringing the newly created atoms close to a series of silicon radiation detectors. About five times each hour the detectors signaled the capture of an alpha particle charged with 8,600,000 electron volts of energy. Nuclear theory...