Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Louis Braille devised his raised-dot alphabet in 1829, there has been no other practical means for the blind to read. For 17-year-old Candy Linvill, blind since the age of three, Braille's system of dots posed little problem, but she was still confined to those books and publications that are issued in Braille. Now, because of an ingenious new device on loan from her father's laboratory, she is freed from that limitation...
Candy recently read the adventures of Christopher Robin and the Autobiography of Malcolm X without the aid of Braille. Similarly, she can read typed letters from friends and current novels or textbooks not yet transcribed into Braille, as well as newspapers and magazines - all previously inaccessible to the blind. The machine, now being perfected by Electrical Engineer John G. Linvill and a team of researchers at Stanford University and Stanford Research Institute, electronically transforms a printed letter into one that can be felt...
Last week, after further study of the Mariner data, Pimental reported that his ephemeral clue to the existence of Martian life had proved to be false. What he had read as the characteristic "signatures" of methane and ammonia in spectrographic information gathered near the Martian south pole, he admitted, were actually produced by a thick layer of frozen carbon dioxide, otherwise called diy ice. How did the embarrassing error occur? Only when he checked out the experiment in his laboratory, Pimental explained, did he learn that a thick layer of dry ice could produce spectral characteristics similar to those...
...Eagle Rock," read Greenfield, Iowa. For "Reverend Brooks," read Actor Dick Van Dyke-filming a scene for a forthcoming United Artists movie, Cold Turkey, a whimsical story of a town whose citizens decide en masse to kick the smoking habit. The whimsy became reality a month ago when-on the promise of a $6,000 reward from U.A. -Greenfield smokers formally signed a pledge to quit puffing for 30 days and incinerated hundreds of cartons of cigarettes on the town square. Last week the month of official abstinence ended, and with allowances for the veracity of the people involved...
...report prompted one West German newspaper to comment that Americans abroad are paid "ducal salaries." It has stirred a somewhat different reaction from U.S. executives in Europe. "I read that and gulped hard," says Ed ward Roach, European marketing director for Honeywell Inc., who is transferring this month from Frankfurt to Brussels. "Only if you're willing to live like a native can you do pretty well." The trouble, according to some overseas executives, is that living like a native often means squeezing a family into a cramped apartment and doing without some amenities that Americans take for granted...