Word: robots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...louder and faster than any other movie ever made. Cary Grant did everything right as Walter Burns; it must have been a great surprise to see him work in this sort of part after the more submissive work he'd been used to. Rosalind Russell talks like a robot with too many "D" batteries in her--and she's a wonder...
...BIONICS are multiplying like Texas Instruments' common stock. In addition to the Six Million Dollar Man and its automated rib-out, Bionic Woman, ABC has Holmes and Yoyo, featuring a robot programmed to do cops' work for kids' amusement. NBC recycles The Invisible Man as Gemini...
Exotic Chemistry. But the devices that got the most attention were those in Viking 2's biology laboratory, the small (1 cu. ft.) package designed to detect life on Mars. This week the lander is to stretch out its robot arm, scoop up a sample of Martian soil and dump it into the minilab, which will repeat the three life-seeking experiments already performed by Viking 1. If the scoop works and all goes according to schedule, the results of these experiments could be in early next week...
...have that "perfect" robot...
...Most, however, were simply overwhelmed by the implications of their accomplishment. "How many times does Columbus arrive in history?" asked Gerald Soffen, Viking project scientist. "We've just witnessed one of the arrivals. We are a privileged generation." For the first time, through an obedient and ingeniously contrived robot, man was about to gaze at a Martian landscape, to begin sifting through Martian soil for evidence that life exists beyond the earth...