Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lane superhighway that threatens to slice through the historic part of town. The fight-the-highway movement is not unique to Morristown. As the federal government's $41 billion interstate highway program enters its ninth year, more and more citizens are protesting that the road to faster automobile travel is not worth the havoc it often creates in the neighboring countryside...
...final dive began with a view of the Crater Alphonsus and its neighbors, a picture that just about matched the best that have been taken by the biggest telescopes on earth. Then, as the spacecraft plunged toward its impact point, the lunar landscape expanded. Slowly at first, then faster and faster, the field of view narrowed (see cuts), and details emerged that had never before been glimpsed by human eyes...
...Faster and faster fell Ranger IX, tugged by the moon's gravitation until it reached the speed of nearly 6,000 m.p.h. Its cameras never faltered. They sent their pictures to the end, giving countless millions of televiewers a look at the crater floor as it might be seen from the cockpit of a spacecraft about to land. The last pictures were transmitted just .45 seconds before impact from three-quarters of a mile above the lunar surface. They showed objects as small as ten inches...
Computers did not really hit their stride until transistors and other solidstate components-tiny, reliable and cool-running-took over from vacuum tubes in 1958. The state of the art has been speeded considerably by the U.S. military and its pressing demands for larger, faster computers. One of today's computers can make more calculations in one hour than a Yankee Stadium full of scientists could make in a man's lifetime. Some of the more sophisticated machines can multiply 500,000 ten-digit numbers in one second. Even if no further advances were made in computer technology...
...more than 100 new subatomic particles, and are busy analyzing strange radio signals from outer space. Biochemists have used the computer to delve into the hitherto unassailable secrets of the human cell, and hospitals have begun to use it to monitor the condition of patients. Computers now read electrocardiograms faster and more accurately than a jury of physicians. The Los Angeles police department plans to use computers to keep a collection of useful details about crimes and an electronic rogue's gallery of known criminals. And in a growing number of schools, computers have taken jobs as instructors...