Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure exactly how the rubella does its disabling work, but one result is the stunted growth of thousands of microscopic hair cells on the acoustic nerve in the recesses of the inner ear (see diagram). Doctors recently proved, by passing a wire under the hair cells and stimulating the nerve, that there is no nerve damage. But Dr. Edgar Lowell of the John Tracy Clinic* points out that "we still haven't cracked the neural code that transmits messages from the hair cells to the hearing nerve below." The ear conceals other mysteries as well, and there...
Jerry A. Brinkman, whose elaborately elevatored glider (see diagram) lasted 9.4 seconds. Distance awards went to Berkeley Physicist Robert Meuser (89 ft.) and Stewart-Warner Corp. Engineer Louis W. Schultz, whose 11-in.-long delta wing, made of graph paper, flew 58 ft. 2 in. before skidding to a stop. Pioneer Naval Aviator Ralph S. Barnaby, 74, took the aerobatics prize with a stabilizer-equipped glider that gracefully floated through two complete outside loops. Brown University Anthropologist James Sakoda folded his way to the origami award; his swept-wing craft proved air-worthless, but the judges admired...
...attacking nation can choose from a whole catalogue of ingenious "penetration aids" to baffle enemy defense (see diagram above). Dummy missiles may be employed or missiles releasing decoys that defending radar has difficulty differentiating from authentic warheads. A single missile can suddenly eject multiple warheads that separate widely enough so that even a well-aimed ABM will destroy only one of them. An advance high-altitude nuclear explosion can temporarily blind a city's radar defenses or attackers can simply saturate a city with more ICBMs than there are defending missiles...
Robot in Space. In Bradley's system, a ground-based astronaut would strap himself into a control harness or frame that would be a virtual duplicate of a telefactor aboard an orbiting spacecraft (see diagram). Should the astronaut want to adjust a cabin control, for example, he would reach his arm toward a knob on a duplicate of the spacecraft's instrument panel. His every motion would be translated into electronic signals and transmitted to the telefactor in orbit. Servomechanisms on the telefactor would move its arm toward the actual spacecraft control panel. Feedback devices on the telefactor...
After that, says Dr. Gerbode, "it was just a matter of not making any mistakes." It was also a 91-hour marathon for him and his three assistant surgeons. With the heart exposed (see diagram), Dr. Gerbode stripped away part of its outer sac (pericardium) for later use. Next he sewed up the ductus arteriosus where it joined the pulmonary artery. Then, with his patient connected to the heart-lung pump, he set its heat-exchanger to chill Mrs. Vanella's blood to 68° F., to reduce the brain's oxygen demands...