Word: robots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bicentennial spectacular, it was meant to be out of this world: a July 4 touchdown on Mars by Viking 1's robot lander to begin the search for life on the red planet. But true to its name, Mars was being belligerent. The first landing site in the Chryse region appeared so hazardous on careful photographic analysis that Viking scientists concluded late last week that a birthday landing was out. That part of the American celebration would come somewhat later...
Even as the robot was sending data to its orbiting mother ship for relay back to scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, the other probe of the eight-year-old $1 billion Viking program was closing in on Mars. The twin Viking 2 spacecraft is scheduled to send still another lander to the Martian surface on Sept. 4, either to expand the search or to stand in for Viking 1 should something go amiss with the first lander. Scientists rate Viking's chances of a successful landing at 70%. Unlike the Apollo lunar module, which could...
...need protection. In the FBI's case, these trade-offs are magnified. Ungar walks into an organization with a history of secrecy and silence, through 50 years shut tight to all investigative reporters. He starts asking questions and gets almost nothing but candid answers in return. Only a truly robot-like reporter comes out of that situation un-compromised, and Ungar is not a robot. His thankfulness manifests itself in overly-gracious characterizations of the low level agents who risked so much to open up to him. The eight agents whom Ungar profiles rapidly in a seven-page section...
...about it. The leading expert on it is Dr. Hilde Bruch, who has been observing anorexics for more than 35 years and has written a book on them. Bruch has developed a psychological composite portrait of the typical anorexic victim: they were, she says, model children who behaved with robot-like obedience because they doubted their abilities to stand up for and assert themselves. Their dieting usually began inexplicably, following trivial remarks about their appearance or upon a change of environment, like going to camp or college. In new situations, the anorexic feels embarassed about being chubby or not athletic...
...Stark Room of the New Hampshire Highway Hotel in Concord, cloistered away from the hordes of straw-hat-waving Reagan supporters and robot-like Secret Servicemen below, a prayer meeting was in progress...