Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointed directly at Venus through a port in the plane's roof the scientists were able to deflect the planet's reflected light continuously for more than an hour into the telescope, which was mounted horizontally inside the plane. During this time, they obtained 2,000 separate patterns of Venusian light on an interferometer-a device that splits a beam of light, sends each half along a path of different length, and then rejoins them in an interference pattern of light and dark fringes. Computer analysis and averaging of these patterns by scientists at Block Associates in Cambridge...
...Then began a life pattern that would soon become familiar in U.S. cultural pursuits-in which hundreds of the gifted, the talented or the merely qualified would live from grant to mouth, or move, like modern Lollard friars, from college to college, claiming hospitality by right of authorship. The Lowells drifted to Louisiana State University, and then back to Kenyon. Lowell's poetry was excruciatingly difficult and ambiguous; as he said later, "it really wasn't poetry...
...pattern prevails throughout the nation. Minnesota's legislature approved a 10% to 15% increase in educational funds for the Twin Cities, which previously had been outvoted by rural interests. Wisconsin's dairy-directed legislature, long a staunch defender of the more expensive spread, finally made the sale of oleomargarine legal. Colorado passed the nation's most advanced abortion bill, and North Carolina last week enacted a measure that is similar to Colorado's in most respects. Also last week, Oklahoma became the first state to legalize artificial insemination by a donor other than the woman...
...imaginative ideas, notwithstanding failures. If the new "mechanism" can steer between a too specific, outdated cold war orientation, on the one hand, and an aimless benevolence on the other, it has a truly exciting chance not merely to provide shelter for the orphans but to modify the entire pattern of America's self-projection in the world...
...River Mills, a medium-sized Virginia textile firm (1966 sales: $281 million), and smaller, North Carolina-based Fieldcrest Mills ($171 million) decided to copy the long-established industry pattern by merging. If stockholders approve a swap of securities worth some $87 million, the merged company will have combined sales of more than $450 million, a strong position as the U.S.'s fourth biggest publicly owned textile company (after Burlington Industries, J. P. Stevens & Co. and United Merchants and Manufacturers), and a new name: Dan River Fieldcrest...