Word: gadgeteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hole in the Doughnut. Aero-Go's gadget goes to work after ground crews have rolled a plane's wheels onto small, dolly-like platforms. Underneath each platform are air bearings-flat disks made of plastic-fabric materials. When air is pumped into the disks, they assume a doughnut shape, raising the platform and its heavy load from 1 to 3 in. As the bearings become inflated, air escaping through perforations in the doughnut seeps underneath it. That thin film of escaping air suspends platform and plane above the concrete surface...
Jack R. Edwalt, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, also finds that other anxieties contribute to the fear of flying. "Trouble with the boss, an impending tax struggle, problems with a new product-the airplane can aggravate these." Often, too, there is simply "mistrust of the gadget." Polaroid's manager of community relations, Bob Palmer, who cheerfully admits, "I get tanked up while the airplane does," agrees. "It's really a hatred of being dependent on something mechanical," he says. Then too, executives who feel that they must always be in command may be bothered...
...Texas who quit after one session. Those seeking spiritual release must pass through five levels of liberation; in addition to lectures on the glories of Scientology, initiates must answer a long series of questions, often highly personal, while clutching two tin cans wired to an "E-meter," an electrical gadget reputed to be also capable of communicating with inanimate objects (in one such experiment Hubbard was in touch with tomatoes). By watching the fluctuations of a needle, Scientologist "auditors" can supposedly discern when a student has become "clear" and has attained "total awareness and freedom.'' Students attempting...
...tinkerer who started out in a small basement shop 16 years ago, Lyngsø credits the gadget with cutting down the proliferation of meetings that have come with the growth of his own firm, Søren T. Lyngsø, Dansk Servo Teknik, to two plants and 160 employees. He finds that the machine starts saving money even before conferences start: nowadays his managers whenever possible skip calling meetings rather than watch the machine add up the cost...
...north instead, accompanied by the nuclear frigate Truxtun and several other escort vessels. Six or seven other warships put out of Yokosuka later in the week, presumably bound for the same area. Shadowing Enterprise, sometimes at the dangerously close range of 800 yards, was the Soviet trawler Gidrolog, a gadget-crammed spy ship of the same genre as Pueblo...