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...flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...
...Nation recommended that the U.S.: 1) put the Truman-Ewing plan on ice, 2) go all out to extend voluntary insurance plans to tens of millions not now covered, 3) let federal and state governments pay the premiums for those who cannot afford to pay them, 4) dot the nation with up-to-date medical centers where doctors would practice in groups. The commission's plans would cost the Federal Government an estimated $1 billion a year, on top of the $1 billion it now spends for health...
...boom has none of the bawdy, big-spending glitter of oilfields of a bygone era. The basin's chief invaders are the drilling crews, who brought their families and live in the trailer cities that dot the crossroads (see NEWS IN PICTURES). Hotel lobbies and restaurants hum with brokers hawking leases and mineral rights, but there is little oldtime roistering...
Each one of these dots can hold what computer men call a "bit" (short for binary digit) of information. If charged, it is considered a "one"; if uncharged, it is a "zero." By arranging ones and zeros in a code, a string of numbers, letters or words can be stored in dot form (2,500 bits is the equivalent of 69 words). When the crystal has heard its lesson once, it remembers for a week or more...
...bits can be "read out" by sending pulses of electricity to the dots on the crystal. Each dot absorbs more or less electricity according to whether it is charged or not. Sensitive relays measure the flow of current and report whether each dot is a one or a zero. This process, which takes less than a millionth of a second, is the equivalent of the human brain's "bringing something to mind...