Word: scans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reel. At the push of a button, from any number of locations and at great distances, Videofile's computer automatically locates the individual file-on-film, then reproduces it as pictures on a TV screen or as printed copies-all in less than a minute. The operator can scan the TV screening of the file, get printed copies of only what portions he needs. More important, says Ampex, individual file entries can for the first time be replaced, relocated or deleted without replacing the entire section of the file. Cost: $200,000 to $1,000,000, depending...
...Henry N. Wagner Jr. of Johns Hopkins Hospital became the first human guinea pig to try the "Albumatope" injection on himself. He has since used it, with iodine 131, to get revealing scintillation-scan pictures of 225 patients, with no ill effects. Dr. Taplin himself has now used the technique for more than 150 patients. He employs iodine 125. The safety of the method is attested by the fact that the radiation dose each patient receives is much less than he would get from special chest X rays for this purpose. And the minute amount of radioactive iodine is flushed...
...Classrooms. "A third place is in the classrooms. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. In many places classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. We must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty...
Each board offers over fifty different selections--that is, each can read temperatures or pressures in over fifty different locations. In Holyoke Center and Langdell Hall, engineers go through all of these readings several times a day in order to scan the system for trouble. But next year even this bit of manual work will be unnecessary, since the data processor in Weld will scan all three boards continuously and print out the information on ticker tape. It will also sound an alarm when any of the readings fall outside normal limits...
...Scanning the Seaboard. Radar surveillance planes, which had lumbered aloft earlier, stayed up during the presidential flight to scan the area for strange aircraft. Submarines and destroyers at sea were ordered to keep a close watch on their radar screens. Air Force and Navy all-weather planes patrolled every possible air corridor from Cuba to Florida and up the East Coast. Army antiaircraft installations were at the ready. Along the whole Eastern seaboard, dozens of fighter pilots sat on alert in their cockpits...