Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Pern operates a state essentially modeled on the classic Nazi-Fascist pattern, his regime is different in one other major respect. The handsome, strapping six-footer, whose athletic figure now sags just a bit with the weight of middle age (55), does not govern alone. Beside him rules his glittering wife Evita, a 5 ft. 2, pale-skinned, dark-eyed, dazzling blonde of 32. Their man & wife dictatorship has few precedents. Some have compared it with the dual reign of Spain's Ferdinand & Isabella. Perhaps a closer parallel in history was established by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian...
Magnetically guided missiles steer, like ships, by following automatically the pattern of the earth's magnetic field. When a long-range missile is guided by "automatic astro-navigation," it flies by night and has wise little telescopes to pick up certain stars. Photosensitive tubes note the position of the stars. This information, processed by a complicated electronic brain, tells the missile the course it is following over the surface of the earth. It corrects its own course if necessary; it knows when it reaches the target and when to explode its bomb...
...history of Harvard investment follows the economic pattern of a developing America. Harvard grew up with the country and helped it grow. When its investment in the Middlesex Canal had to be written off as a "Doubtful and Desparate Debt" because a newfangled steam railroad took all the business, Harvard moved fast to keep up with the changing times. It bought railroad bonds. As the New England textile industry grew up in its backyard, it saw another opportunity: such big companies as Pacific
...move, then, followed a pattern which has been evident for some time now. This pattern includes the recent reorganization of the Overseer's Visiting Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, and the revitalization of the Alumni's Schools Committees. Twenty-two winter speeches at sundry affairs by football coach Lloyd Jordan, and the weekly Harvard Club-sponsored visits of prospective students to Cambridge also follow in the new setup...
...York last Week, early morning televiewers who happened to tune in NBC-TV were surprised to find, instead of the usual test pattern, a strange series of vertical bands. Soon these changed to still pictures of London's Houses of Parliament and a landscape, then to a live model who moved little more than her eyelashes. The continuous tone signal accompanying the pictures was finally broken by an announcer. Casually, he explained that the testing period was being devoted to "experiment with and development of the compatible, all-electronic RCA color television system...