Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spaakistan. From the headlines, the dream of a united Continent seemed more illusory than ever. In fact, it looked last week as if Europe's long-stalled political machinery was in gear again. For one thing, the Labor victory in England has persuaded pro-British Europeans that there is no longer much point in holding out for British membership in the Common Market before discussing political integration...
Houses & Horses. This year Government and business will spend a record $2 billion for electronic data-processing gear, ranging from $90,000 small computers to $5,500,000 machines capable of 2,500,000 calculations a second. So broad is the variety of computer users that there are more than 1,000 programming "languages"; last week RCA Chairman David Sarnoff urged that the scientists put their minds to devising a standard system to replace the "technological Tower of Babel." That will be difficult if only because computer technology is changing so rapidly. Most important, computers are being brought into...
...Darren) and a boy-crazy girl (Tiffin) find happiness at the end of an auto endurance race through Death Valley. As the dragster's inamorata, Pamela learns that falling in love with an "intuitive genius" can be an endurance test in itself. Darren spends so much time pondering gear ratios and reassembling fuel lines that he can scarcely stay awake long enough to endanger a girl's reputation. Of course, he regains consciousness moments before the Big Race, a tense, imaginatively shot sequence filled with screeching wheels and groaning metal as the cars hurtle toward the finish, arousing...
...Defense Department also refused to reveal the names of the destroyers on the claim that they carried highly secret electronic snooping gear. But after Jimmy Kress's letter, the Pentagon grudgingly confirmed that the destroyers were, in fact, the Morton and the Richard S. Edwards. After all, how can you stay mum when Mom out there in Dubuque wants the folks to know where...
Smooth Landing. Five chase planes circled overhead and two helicopters hovered solicitously, as the B70 began the take-off roll for its first cautious flight. Just 33 seconds after Chief Test Pilot Al White released the brakes, Cecil was airborne, climbing steeply. The stiltlike forward landing gear retracted properly, but the main wheel gear jammed, halfway up. Pilot White put the wheels down again and switched to an alternate flight plan. There was no hope now of passing the speed of sound on the first try; supersonic flight is not for airplanes with wheels dangling...