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...Antenna Orchard. A receiver capable of picking up such distant signals is already within the technological capability of man, Oliver believes. He proposes an array of 10,000 dish antennas, each 100 ft. in diameter. With such an enormously sensitive radio telescope, he says, astronomers would be able to pinpoint the faintest radio signals coming down from space...
...Masters have to explain basic physiology. Often they have to reassure the husband that infertility does not mean impotence. They explain the best timing for intercourse in relation to ovulation and the best position to increase the likelihood of conception. It may take months of laboratory work to pinpoint and correct the cause of infertility. But in at least one case out of eight, Masters and Johnson report, learning about conception and the assurance that something is being done about their problem are enough to start a couple toward parenthood within three months...
...down. "Anyone who moved was hit," said Savage, as he described the bitter struggle in which first the platoon leader and then the platoon sergeant were mowed down. But the rest fought on as wave after wave of attacks was beaten back by the platoon's guns and pinpoint Air Cav artillery support. When the remnants of the 2nd Platoon were finally rescued and brought back to safety, they were dazed and jabbering, but still had discipline, pride and-most amazing of all-ammunition to spare...
...weaponry still further with another memorandum demanding greater caution. Hard on its heels came an Air Force decree tightening control over some 200 "free-strike zones" at which pilots had been free to blast away at will. Henceforth FAC planes will patrol each of the known Viet Cong zones, pinpoint strikes within them as in the rest of South Viet Nam. A B-52 raid originally planned for the big allied sweep of the Ben Cat area fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 24) was canceled on the outside chance that some stray bombs might hit uninvolved villages. And in an area...
Nowadays, the classic Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler-Bellevue IQ tests are given only when educators need to pinpoint the mental ability of someone who seems unusually gifted or retarded and so needs special guidance. They must be administered by an expert and require a session of one hour for each student. Much more common are group intelligence tests (experts prefer to call them "scholastic aptitude" tests) such as the Otis Mental Ability test, which comes in an all-picture version for Grades 1 to 4 and with multiple choice questions for Grades...