Word: mode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right Answers, Right Time. Despite such complexities, the scheduled maneuvers were perfectly calculated by one of the unsung heroes of the mission: an IBM 7094 Mode II computer, one of five located deep in the bowels of NASA's Mission Control Center near Houston. Primped and primed and ready to go for more than a year, the electronic memory housed in the grey, blue-trimmed cabinets had been taught all the incredible complications of orbital calculations, had learned the long, involved equations worked out by teams of crack mathematicians...
Looking around for some more palatable mode of existence, he thought the Senate "was something I'd be interested in. It wasn't just a personal thing. We need people in Congress with technical experience and I've had 23 years in the military, a department which takes the biggest proportion of our national budget...
Throughout the Mekong Delta, trunk canals and irrigation ditches are filling, and Viet Cong units will soon be back to a favorite mode of transportation: elusive sampans. The riot of rain-fed foliage in the jungles and swamps provides better concealment for the Red guerrillas, while battle-weary government troops are compelled to slog through waist-deep mud. To both sides the monsoon brings misery: boots and web belts rot, weapons rust even under oilcloth, leeches drop from wet branches, and a thin green slime covers everything...
This week's cover, Steinberg's first for TIME, shows the artist in his more intricate mode of expression. He sought to convey his view of space communications as a maze of reflections of one thing to another. Since his forte is satire, he did not fail to convey the somewhat frightening prospect of man's new capability to store a mass of information and, on signal, send it anywhere in the world. His drawing, both asuming and sobering, is one to study and ponder...
...Columbia University Press. The book sets forth principles and procedures for categorizing the thousands of distinct organisms, both living and fossil, whose identities, similarities, and other biological relationships are important to the progress of biology. He was awarded his first Elliot Medal for "Tempo and Mode in Evolution...