Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machines and replace them with human attendants. On busy days, 300 to 350 cars an hour used to pass through the machine-tended lanes, while 600 to 650 autos moved through the lanes that were guarded by people-proving that the human hand can be quicker than the mechanical eye...
...likes to call himself "Big Al." He is a beefy, publicity-shy, self-made millionaire. He is also a personal financier to President Nixon. This man, Robert H. Abplanalp, 51, has found himself increasingly in the public eye-a position he ordinarily avoids-since it was learned that he lent $625,000 toward Nixon's purchase of property in San Clemente. How did Abplanalp become the President's silent business partner, and what holds their relationship together...
...from the nucleus should be swept into the characteristic comet's tail. As it reacts with the charged particles, the tail should begin to glow brightly-so brightly, in fact, that Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory believes that the comet could be visible to the naked eye in daylight just before its close approach to the sun in December, and even more spectacularly in the evening during January as it begins to move away. Perhaps the most remarkable sight will be seen by observers in Latin America. On the day before Christmas, an annular eclipse* will occur...
...result is a chimerical amalgam of cultures, as though Chryssa's eye had got ahead of the present and were looking back on Times Square from a vantage point as remote in time from it as ours is from ancient Greece. The neons still work, but they do so with fitful spareness; a cunningly formed squiggle lights up here or there, or a labyrinth of reversed and superimposed red letters glows inside a dark plastic box. They spell AUTOMAT, but in fact they defy reading. The signs have ceased to signify. They are fragments-not in the sense...
Science, Rennie says, so long the materialistic brand of knowledge, begins to come upon evidence of other types of experiences. The pineal gland points to the mystical concepts of the third eye--looking inward, regulating the other glands . . . Einstein finds a single equation reducing all matter in the universe to pure simple energy--an energy infinite in extent, timeless, perfect, uniting all individuals, revealed in the Guru's brand of meditation . . . another essence revealed in meditation is the Divine Name, which crops up in references to the Christian logos and to the name of Krishna . . . another essence, a divine nectar...