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...Next day, as Parlia ment reassembled, shouting, leaping Tory backbenchers cheered lustily while the newly elected member for Kinross took his oath as an M.P. and moved into his place for the first time on the government's front bench. Pulling out a small red and gold ballpoint pen, Douglas-Home hunched down in his seat and scribbled furiously on slips of paper for the next 42 minutes while Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson delivered a cutting attack on the government...
Deep below deck, with all the mindless certainty of a Ouija board, a marking pen moved by steel fingers glided across a nautical chart of Narragansett Bay. As he followed the pen's thin red line, a Navy lieutenant, cut off from any view of the water, telephoned commands to the bridge. At each command, the helmsman altered course, and the 65-ft. test ship Alan threaded neatly among islands and inlets. Each change in direction and speed was instantly recorded by the moving pen...
...noise that comes back from the bottom is changed in frequency by the movement of the ship. This easily detected frequency shift is the celebrated Doppler effect, and a computer translates the change into speed-and-direction instructions for the automatic marking pen. A single dial adjusts the navigator to the scale of any standard marine chart. And last week's sea trial found the new Doppler sonar accurate within a startling...
...prototypes to the Navy for further trials and then retire. He stresses that Doppler sonar is a supplement, not a replacement for radar and other modern navigational aids. It can function properly only in well-charted waters or far at sea, where the course picked out by its pen is not likely to run into unexpected obstacles. The Navy already has a built-in need for such a device on many of its ships, and along the world's coastlines, where the bulk of merchant shipping still plies its way, the new navigator may soon prove indispensable. Though...
RONALD SEARLE-Bianchini, 16 East 78th St. Searle has sharpened his pen for a vorpal bit of vivisection; the victims of his Anatomies and Decapitations in ink-and-wash-flatulent beldames with clinker eyes, lopsided popsies with liquid-cherry smiles-belong under glass in St. Trinian's biology lab. Through...