Word: diagraming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contained a message that was frighteningly clear. Unless city officials paid the letter writer $1 million and assured him safe passage out of the country, he would set off an H-bomb in the middle of town. To make matters worse, the note was accompanied by a credible-looking diagram of a thermonuclear weapon. Consulted by city officials, experts at the Atomic Energy Commission refused to say for certain that the would-be bomber was not fully capable of carrying out his threat...
...door and ordered the 20 or so bank employees and six customers to lie face down. Patty Hearst stood 40 feet away, toward the center of the bank lobby-and carefully centered before the cameras-while Camilla Hall positioned herself at the far end of the bank (see diagram). All three covered the victims with their carbines while Perry and Soltysik took the keys from the tellers, unlocked the cash drawers and scooped...
Some observers nonetheless believe that there will be too much hardware in the sky (see diagram). Not many more than 22,000 businesses are now in the market for private telephone lines. And the three major commercial television networks have shown little enthusiasm to date for using domestic satellites. Since sports and news events originate in many areas, the networks prefer to rely on existing facilities rather than to build expensive new ones to beam the programs to satellites...
...Turkish Airlines DC-10 just outside Paris that killed 346 people. An improperly sealed rear cargo door burst open in midair, and the loss of pressure in the cargo hold caused the plane's still-pressurized passenger cabin to buckle downward into the cargo compartment (see diagram). Passengers began spilling out of the plane, control cables to the rudder and stabilizers were fouled, and the plane crashed into a forest 13,000 ft. below...
...were included, where the picture breaks up around some shape in the middle. The viewer is forced to consider paradoxes that make two pictures into one: a secretary in an office window, and a car on the street just outside, presented together with the deftness of a cross-section diagram but without its license...