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This week Moscow's hordes of subway-riding white-collar workers and bureaucrats were full of stir as workmen put the finishing touches on a new subway line. It is the first segment of a Great Circle line that will intersect the present three spokelike crosstown lines (see map). When the Great Circle is completed, the center of Moscow will have a fine system: a passenger will be able to get from almost anywhere to almost anywhere in the city by changing trains only once...
...worlds meet, and intersect, and change...
...interests of the clergy and the psychiatrists don't entirely coincide, but their circles intersect. Both are trying to release people from the burden of frustrations...
...basic device of MAU: radio transmitters which shoot thin "fans" of radio energy into the air. They are arranged in pairs so that their fans intersect at a predetermined altitude. Long lines of these intersections form tracks leading down to the airport. The pilot of an approaching plane "latches on" to the end of a track, 40 miles out. Then automatic instruments take over, keep him on the track of intersections until he is practically on the ground. Receiving sets spotted along the track flash lights in the control room, tell ground operators just where the plane...
...navigator knows at once that he is somewhere on this line. Then he tunes in a second pair of master-and-slave stations operating on a different frequency, and gets a second line of position. His location on the chart is the point where the two lines intersect. A skilled operator can complete the whole problem in less than six minutes...