Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signal, must calculate when the cameras will be looking at something interesting. The satellite's orbit shifts slowly around the earth, allowing all parts that do not lie farther north than France to be photographed. On the second day of its orbiting, it sent to Fort Monmouth cloud-pattern pictures of the Mediterranean region...
First originating with the Department of Defense, the Tiros project was turned over last year to NASA, which has understandably high hopes for it. Since clouds are the tattletales about weather and weather-to-come, the world's meteorologists have long been desperate for cloud-pattern pictures of the entire earth. A single Tiros cannot keep watch on all the earth's clouds-but seven, orbiting simultaneously, could do the job. When that happens, man may be within range of controlling the weather, which now controls his life...
...burning question is whether to keep up with a millionaire named Winthrop Rockefeller, who has fostered something rare in his' adopted state: a school district that spends money. This began in 1956, when Rockefeller launched a $2,500,000 plan "to set a pattern for other school districts to follow." He has since given Morrilton schools $100,000 a year, picked up the $800,000 tab for a model elementary school, and so roused the citizenry that they floated a $350,000 bond issue, doubled real estate assessment and boosted school taxes...
...flattery." In the past, when similar complaints have popped up, Arthur Murray has neatly danced aside, pointing to a clause in his licensing agreements which makes each of the 450 studios a separate entity for legal liability purposes. But this time the FTC contends that the same deceptive selling pattern is found throughout Murray's organization, holds him responsible...
...Rauwolfia drugs from Indian snakeroot (best known: reserpine) stimulate the reticular alertness center and have little effect on the sleep pattern, are therefore less sedative in action. ¶ Meprobamate, in moderate doses, usually has no effect on the alertness center and little on the sleep pattern; its tranquilizing action must work through other parts of the brain...