Word: leighton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Leighton, took aerial photos of a volcanic area in the Mojave Desert and degraded them to Mariner's 200-line resolution. They practiced on weather pictures taken by Tiros satellites and on rocket photos of the Earth. They pored over purposely fuzzed-up pictures of relief maps of Southern California. By matching their conclusions with the known features of the areas they studied, they learned how to judge distances and sizes, how to distinguish contours from shadows and reflections...
Mars may not look much like Earth; the pictures are, in fact, testimony to the uniqueness of Earth in the solar system. But Mars could still hold some of the secrets of Earth's evolution. "If the Martian surface is truly in its primitive form," said Dr. Leighton, "that surface may prove to be the best-perhaps the only-place in the solar system still preserving clues to original organic development, traces of which have long since disappeared from Earth...
...sequence. The suspense ended when Mariner broke its silence on schedule and began playing back the bits of digital code representing the pictures it had taken the day before. "When I saw that little printout tape and knew we had a picture," says Caltech's Dr. Robert B. Leighton, chief experimenter of the picture team, "my heart turned around...
...Puerto Ricans, Jesse Rodriguez and Simon Suarez, went to jail, charged with aggravated battery. Last week they were set free because Judge George N. Leighton ruled that they had acted in "self-defense...
...decision incensed Chicago cops, and state legislators angrily talked impeachment. But Judge Leighton, a Negro, a noted former criminal lawyer, and a magna Harvard Law graduate, stood his ground. He insisted that "a policeman has no right to pull a gun unless he knows a felony is being committed." Carrying a broken beer bottle is no crime, said Leighton. Besides, "How do we know that these men, who are unable to speak English, said what these officers say they said?" Ruled Judge Leighton: "The right to resist unlawful arrest is a phase of self-defense...