Word: precisionism
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To use such equipment successfully requires the highest degree of human ingenuity and precision, and despite all his experience, Risner spends most of his waking hours perfecting his skills. "You never get good enough," he says. "A complacent pilot gets killed."
By Words. The final decision was in favor of control by words. There are plenty of devices available that can distinguish with precision between a limited number of spoken words. The Honeywell men figured that a vocabulary of ten normal words was enough to give all needed commands. When the...
There was a hush over Hanoi last week-an air of impending doom as palpable as the crachin, the drizzle that cools the city each afternoon. From all sides the growing weight of U.S. air power pressed in on North Viet Nam's capital. Jets roamed the skies almost...
The three-stage Douglas Delta rocket that rose above Cape Kennedy last week tossed its 85-lb. payload into a high elliptical orbit with neat precision. Early Bird, first satellite to be sent aloft by Comsat (Communications Satellite Corp.), climbed as high as 22,300 miles above the earth, then...
Dead Souls, which opened over intersession, was the company's first offering. When I saw it I was awed by the precision and unity of the cast. No expression was wasted, and even the smallest movement was related to the entire scene. The acting was carefully controlled yet emotionally convincing...