Word: scans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McWThirters now comb thousands of journals to keep their superlatives up to date, correspond with authorities in no countries, scan heaps of musty books to track down obscure points. To determine that Henry I was the leading sire of illegitimate children among British monarchs (at least 20, by six mistresses), they consulted twelve volumes of peerage records. And when all else fails, they turn to an army of volunteer assistants, including a mathematics expert lodged in Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum...
...space. There will come a time, the scientists believe, when men will be needed because of the human capability for judgment and improvisation. A collection of instruments landed on the moon can do only the specific jobs for which it is designed. It can look around with TV eyes, scan the close and forbidding horizon, feel the ground for moonquakes, perhaps examine pinches of moon dust for chemical content. It can do almost anything that its designers want it to do-except the most important thing of all: react intelligently to unexpected situations...
Skipping the traditional oral intelligence briefings that come packaged with map board, pointer and colonel attached, he demands tightly written papers that he can scan with his built-in, wide-screen-camera mind. Answers to hard questions are demanded with computer speed. The Pentagon's "action officers" now act; "project officers" project. Says a staffer: "I've never been so flattened out since law school. Among other things, he's piling on the work to find out who can produce; if you can't, you're out." And McNamara keeps a special task force...
...detect the presence of cancer by changes in skin temperature. Although infra-red was developed primarily for the military and to guide and track missiles, detect camouflage and take aerial photographs through fog, other uses are being found for it almost every day; e.g., it can be used to scan giant electronic computers for overheated circuits that might soon burn out or malfunction. Says R. Bowling Barnes, president of Barnes Engineering, a top maker of radiometers: "Infra-red is untopped in possibilities for military and commercial use. It has more potential than anything we know. Only the limit...
...Land. Next morning, when the word of Lumumba's escape got back to the Elisabethville headquarters of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe, officials scurried into action, calling conferences, mobilizing troops. Out went a helicopter and a small spotter plane to scan the back roads for signs of a speeding car. There was little chance of the fugitives crossing an Angolan border point, for the heavily armed Portuguese police would hardly welcome a notorious revolutionary at this stage (see below). If Lumumba was free, a safer bet was that he and his friends were making their way toward...