Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the early 1940s, Juan Terry Trippe, 63, go-getting president of Pan American World Airways, has preached the gospel of the "chosen instrument"-the idea that U.S. airlines can profitably compete against subsidized foreign airlines only if Washington designates a single U.S. airline to operate overseas. Naturally he assumed that the chosen instrument would be built upon Pan Am. And since administrations in Washington have never followed his advice, Juan Trippe last week set out on his own to realize this ambition...
Alien Planet. The probe was already close to Venus when it opened its instrument eyes: an infra-red and a microwave detector. Both of them worked perfectly. Instantly Mariner's radio came alive and began relaying the secrets of Venus to earth, where they were typed in code. In Washington a spokesman for the -Aeronautics and Space Administration announced jubilantly: "We are currently scanning and gathering data from the planet." Then the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena, which built Manner II, relayed its actual voice-an eerie, organ-like music. It would take several weeks to turn the signals...
...cars tested by Dr. Allen had bright chromium trim in the driver's held ot vision. Even small bits of brightwork, such as chromium windshield wipers or decorations on the dash, can reflect sun light and cause spots of glare. Attempts to express the space age in instrument panels end with the instruments poorly grouped. Their needles or other indicators are hard for many drivers to see Many new car models share a common feature: a hood that covers the instrument panel so that its lights will not reflect at night in a stylishly sloping windshield. Under many daytime...
Believing that the Loeb should be an "integral part of the colege." Seltzer hopes to speed the development of the Drama Center into a "truly educational instrument in the study of dramatic literature...
President Pusey expressed the hope that the center will aid the advancement of computer theory and open new fields for computer application. He called for a working relationship with people outside the University "to exploit this wonderful instrument...