Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technology plans to recommend new methods of preventing crime, locating and returning stolen goods, improving communication, and processing information about offenders. At a recent meeting of the National Symposium of Science and Criminal Justice, speakers told of ideas for making automobiles theft proof, computer linked alarms that would pinpoint unseen law violations, non-lethal gases to neutralize intruders and chemicals that would color a fleeing vehicle or leave a burglar with a distinctive, unshakable odor...
...order to pinpoint the source of the mysterious Scorpio X rays, a group of scientists led by Physicist Riccardo Giacconi, of Cambridge's American Science & Engineering, Inc., lofted a NASA Aerobee rocket 150 miles above the earth-well above the atmospheric blanket that X rays cannot penetrate...
...stories aim to pinpoint trends not yet widely reported, and often turn out to be a scoop when printed. Last month a leader broke the news that a 71-lb. television camera developed by Westinghouse is scheduled to go along on the first U.S. mission to the moon and telecast the trip live. Three times in the past five years enterprising leader writers have won Pulitzer Prizes for such stories as the expose of the commodity market's 1964 salad-oil scandal...
...Originally designed to pulverize beachheads for invading U.S. Marines, each ship mounts a battery of 5-in. rocket launchers and a single 5-in. naval rifle. Since the Marines had already landed when McCoy's Navy showed up last April, the beach smashers had to learn to become pinpoint artillerists. It was no easy task. The spin-stabilized 5-in. rocket is not nearly so accurate as a naval rifle shell. Moreover, no one knew if the squat, underpowered ships could safely negotiate Viet Nam's tortuous Mekong River Delta-a prime necessity if their rockets' five...
...dark patch in the foliage is the cover for a V.C. truck-or the product of a jungle spring. A one-eighth-inch telephone wire strung across a jungle clearing can betray the location of an enemy field-communications system; a jungle trail that suddenly peters out can pinpoint the entrance to a labyrinth of V.C. tunnels; a road that goes nowhere can lead the photo interpreters to a hidden oil dump. It requires infinite patience. "A road ends at a river where the ferryboat has been sunk by bombing," says Captain John Irwin, a Recce Tech officer. "Where...