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Guiding Stars. Instruments both on the bomber and the missiles will watch the stars before launch (even in daylight) and jointly keep track of the plane's position above the surface of the earth. When a target has been selected, the bomber's crew will crank the proper instructions into the computers carried by the four Skybolts. At the press of a button, the birds will be on the wing, heading in salvo for a single target or spreading out on individual courses to clobber widely separated cities...
...switch last week, began testing new colors in 1958. It concluded that amber signals are more readily observable by oncoming motorists. The customary white lamps too often get lost in the glare of white headlights at night, or in sun reflection (from chrome) by day. Before the automakers could crank up the change, they had to get 25 states to change motor vehicle laws to allow the use of the amber lamps. Oklahoma-the last state-agreed last July...
...Letters of Beethoven, edited by Emily Anderson. The glimpses into the composer's private affairs are fascinating, but frustrating to those who think genius can be rationally explained; on the evidence of the letters taken alone, Beethoven appears to have been little more than a petty, quarrelsome crank...
...NORAD can do both. At Thule, Greenland, two powerful beams fan northward over the Arctic from four antennas, each the size of a 3O-story building. While still ascending, an enemy missile would pass through the low-altitude beam, then the higher one, providing a fix for computers to crank out its speed, direction, probable point of impact. Fifteen minutes before the missile could land, the combat operations center in Colorado Springs would be warned. The word would flash instantly to the White House, the Pentagon, Ottawa, regional air-defense commanders, the Strategic Air Command and Civil Defense officials...
...their services (the average: 20% of one year's salary for each executive recruited, plus search costs), many corporations find that recruiters can cover a larger field than their own personnel departments. And through a recruiter, a company can solicit in secrecy-a vital consideration when hiring to crank up a new product line or open a new division...