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What the analyzer does is to compare an engine's sounds with what those sounds ought to be. The taped sounds are fed to a computer, which translates their complex wave shapes into the language of binary numbers and then works out a program for the analyzer. The analyzer has been "taught" to read that language and recognize normal and abnormal noises in the functioning of specific engine parts. All a mechanic has to do is hold the analyzer's microphone near a roaring engine. In seconds, the little apparatus will flash a light indicating "no failure...
Whirlpool Bath. The Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas, is advertised by the Chamber of Commerce as the shortest river in the world, running only four miles from its spring-fed source until it spills into the larger Guadalupe River. But some 1,200 tubers flock to it on Sunday afternoons, mostly to ride the steep, 350-yd. stretch where the river swirls like a whirlpool bath. For the sake of togetherness, Texas tubers frequently link feet under arms and form an enormous water snake composed of 40 or 50 tubers. At the end of the run, few tubers have...
...crosswind is causing the plane to drift sideways, the pilot may have to swing the rear antenna to right or left before it picks up the proper pattern of ground radiation. In that case, the amount of antenna swing is also fed into the computer, which then cranks the drift angle into its computations. Working with direction, ground speed, drift angle and flight time from a known point of departure, the pilot's computer becomes an accurate navigator...
During the week, the Administration carefully fed out, bit by bit, enough information to give the people of the U.S. a sharper picture of the situation's seriousness. At a news conference, the President warned: "Heavy infiltration of North Vietnamese forces has created new dangers and difficulties in South Viet Nam. Increased aggression from the North may require an increased American response on the ground ... It is quite possible that new and serious decisions will be necessary in the future...
...nerve-racking sequence of simulated problems. They dealt with every imaginable glitch, from premature starts of the camera to unprogrammed movements of the scan platform that was designed to pick up the planet and tell the TV camera when to start functioning. Every decision the team made was fed into a duplicate Mariner in the laboratory, just as radioed commands might later be sent into space. The difference was that on these practice runs results could be checked, tactics could be changed...