Word: scans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write a play, the dramatist once needed an idea plus the imagination, the knowledge of life and the craft to develop it. Nowadays, more and more, all he needs is someone else's book. To get started, he does not scan the world about him; he and his prospective producer just read the bestseller lists. So far this season, Broadway's premieres have included twice as many adaptations and imports as original American stage plays...
...annual shipment of fortune cookies has arrived, slightly damaged, from Sinkiang Province, and the seers of Plympton Street have donned their sacred crimson robes to scan the crumbs for omens for the coming year. Meddling by Customs officials made some of the scraps nearly unreadable, but the CRIME has been able to put together the following somewhat sketchy prognosis...
...similar check-processing centers are already in operation in other areas of the state, and the new center will keep tab on their operations as well, maintaining a running picture of the bank's business in all of its 702 California branches. Computers in the new center will scan a list of 349,300 of the bank's real estate and installment loans, send reminders to delinquents. By Teletype the center is linked to the bank's 72 overseas offices. The center is the latest example of the revolutionary changes banks are going through to keep...
While the orders pinpointed the troubles in Nicaragua and Guatemala (see THE HEMISPHERE), they showed a U.S. firmness toward Castro & Co. that was notably missing in the days before the election. Henceforth, Navy patrol planes will scan the east coast of Central America while the Shangri-La squadron operates in the general area southwest of Cuba. The Boxer Marine unit will continue to conduct exercises in Puerto Rico and send Marines ashore on weekend liberty in friendly Caribbean ports...
...well they might be. It is huge, young, brilliant, aggressive, progressive. It colonizes everything from the atom to outer space. At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Cal's physicists run one of the world's famed atom smashers. At the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the galaxies. Thanks to Cal's engineers, California's farms are the most mechanized in the U.S. The university runs the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N. Mex. It owns ranches, apartment buildings, forests, hospitals, vineyards, movie studios and seven oceangoing ships. On its 25,877 acres...