Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months and 131 million miles, Boeing's 727 won nothing but praise from pilots, passengers and airlines. The first American-made medium-range jet -and the first three-engine airliner the U.S. has built since the famed Ford Trimotor-it handles easily, skims like a swallow in and out of small airports, and until last August had logged an exceptional record for reliability...
With an appreciative eye to the potential good in technological living and a sensitivity to what is natural, a few modern painters have found, in technology, a new medium for exploring nature. Fusing "life in the car", as one critic put it, with a nostalgic appreciation of the natural landscape, the painting and graphics of Daniel Lang break down the barrier between technology and nature in a new way. The artist portrays the experience of seeing nature through the window of a moving car. He uses the car to enhance his experience of the landscape and we feel at rest...
...that "an artist is most isolated yet most exposed in a drawing, since nothing else comes so purely from within him or shows him to us more intimately." Lang's drawings are definitely his forte. They present his refreshing sense of harmony in its purest form. He handles the medium with such case that questions of mastery become irrelevant and he leaves us free to lose ourselves in his lyrical themes...
...computer has become a main stay of big business in the U.S., but most small and medium-sized companies still find it too expensive for normal use. Last week two of the biggest com puter makers, General Electric and Control Data Corp., introduced new systems that will offer the small business man the same computer advantages as the biggest corporation. Their move to what is called "time sharing" is part of a growing trend to market the com puter's abilities much as a utility sells light...
Plugging Them In. Some companies have discovered that time sharing has reduced to one-fiftieth the time needed to answer a problem, have found access to a large computer more profitable than ownership of a small or medium-sized machine. The Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, one of the pioneers in time sharing, now has 400 users for its IBM 7094 computer, has served scientists as far away as Nor way and Argentina. Experts predict that by 1970 time sharing will account for at least half of an estimated $5 billion computer business, will be used as widely and easily...