Word: intercom
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...speeds varying from I/10th to 1 m.p.h., the crawler inched along its steel treads while its 16-man crew co ordinated its activities through an intercom system. The angle of the crawler platform was constantly adjusted so that Saturn would never tilt more than 4 min. of 1° from true vertical. After negotiating a curve and a 3° slope leading to the launch pad, the crawler successfully delivered its cargo and workmen began bolting the umbilical tower and the Saturn 5 to the pad, getting the huge pair ready to train both ground crews and astronauts. When...
...create flexibility in time as well as space, class periods are broken into 20-minute units that can be combined to fit instructional needs. The end of a period is signaled by intercom music rather than bells. Class schedules are laid out by a Stanford University computer. Team teaching is commonplace -partly because "you can't afford to be a poor teacher when you are working with your peers in a goldfish-bowl situation," as Principal James Smith puts it. Bright students are given up to 13 hours a week to spend as they wish, hopefully in "resource centers...
...Lufthansa Pilot Reinhard Noethel, bringing in a 707 jetliner from Cologne at 39,000 ft., it was the same story?almost. "Ladies and gentlemen," he announced on the intercom, "on the left side you can see Boston." Noethel looked out the left side and gasped. "All I could see," he said later, "were some blue lights...
Betrayed. Seldom had Americans been more aware of their dependence on machines. When power failed in the $37,500 Queens home of Mechanical Engineer Edwin Robbins, the result was pure farce. Nothing worked, not the multitone door chimes or the intercom system, not the Danish dining-room chandelier or the bedroom clocks, not the hair dryer or the electric blankets, not the can opener or the carving knife, not the toothbrush or the razor. Not even the electric-eye garage door. For dinner, the Robbinses had charcoal-broiled steaks grilled over a primitive backyard barbecue...
...dining area with bunks lining the walls. Standing by on the surface is a support barge linked to Sealab by an umbilical cable for power and communications. From the barge, Navy Captain George F. Bond, 50, whom the aquanauts call "Papa Topside," bosses the exercise, chats with them by intercom and observes them by closed-circuit television...