Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crossed a small crater. The robot also displayed impressive scientific skills. Like Luna 16, it carries a device to gouge out samples of lunar soil. It also has the capacity to analyze samples -with an onboard X-ray spectrometer -and report the findings to earth. In addition, it can detect cosmic rays, stomp on the ground to test its rigidity and-speculates Heinz Kaminski of West Germany's Bochum Observatory, where the radio transmissions from Russian space shots are carefully monitored -take three-dimensional pictures of the lunar surface with its multiple cameras for making maps of the moon...
Although I do not concur in Dean von Stade's particular formulation of the issue of male-female ratio in Harvard College, I detect something rather disingenuous about the uproar the lib-minded female students have made in response to his views. I refuse to believe, as the outcry from the libs would have us believe, that they were unaware that such views were common to men of von Stade's generation, and even to men much younger. Their own fathers after all, hold such views, as did their granddaddies...
...Loeb's scheme, computers would monitor the odds for all U.S. sporting events, detect suspicious swings of big money and thus discourage fixes. Customers could dial a bet and have the transaction entered on their phone bills. The Government would not pay bribes, which cost the Mob about $2 billion a year. It could make winnings tax-free and still get by with a 10% to 20% rake-offless than half the Mob's reported take. In short, the Government could offer better odds. As Loeb figures it, the Government might net $15 billion a year...
...terms of sheer frustration, the greatest sufferers have probably been astronomers using radio telescopes to scan the heavens. Stray terrestrial signals at frequencies similar to those being detected are a constant nuisance. It was not until the powerful radar at New York's Kennedy Airport was properly tuned that Bell Labs scientists in New Jersey were able to detect background radiation-mysterious microwave emissions from deep space, which some theorists think are the remnants of the "big bang" that created the universe...
...others are guided by the slight force of the earth's magnetic field. Some animals seem to depend upon old-fashioned topographic features, which they pick up with their own sonar. Eels, according to studies reported by Orr, have so keen a sense of smell that they could detect half a teaspoon of alcohol diluted in 42-mile-long Lake Constance...