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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking up a domestic life of her own, Mrs. Pat Nugent, 19, set up housekeeping with her new husband in a cozy little duplex house in Austin, complete with automatic dishwasher, air conditioning, three closed-circuit television cameras to scan the yard outside, and a charming little cubicle in the carport for the Secret Service. As soon as Luci and Pat had stowed their luggage at home, they set off for the supermarket to load up on frozen pizzas, dill pickles, potato chips and other staples for the pantry. Pat whistled in disbelief when the checker rang up the inflationary...
August 1980. Perched on his polar-orbiting platform 200 miles above the earth, the Weatherman in the Sky begins a routine scan of the earth's surface. Beyond the green necklace of the Antilles, Hurricane Clytemnestra begins to collapse, shredded by a continuous aerial barrage of silver-iodide seeds from U.S. planes. The weatherman flashes Moscow that intense hail is due to fall on Irkutsk by early afternoon, and the Russians quickly send up rockets laden with chemicals, melting the hail before it lifts the wheat fields. As for more mundane matters, vacationers on Cape Cod will have...
...they developed a miniaturized slow-speed tape recorder that could be worn by a man to record his electrocardiogram for ten hours. It was they who had the ingenious idea of playing back the electrocardiographic complexes on an oscilloscope screen like a moving picture. This enabled the physician to scan ten hours of data in ten minutes, and made it feasible to utilize the great volume of electrocardiographic information that their recorder obtains. Holter has become a vice chancellor of the University of California at the La Jolla campus. Glasscock carries on at the Holter Research Foundation in Helena...
...intriguing recital for the negotiation of which the reader desperately needs a map. A map is not supplied. Carson simply fires his tidbits of intelligence helter-skelter, letting them fall where they may, and making no pretense whatever of stitching paragraphs or even sentences together so that they scan...
...another, even fainter, planet. Astronomers calculated a probable orbit, and in March 1929 young Clyde Tombaugh took up the search. He examined scores of telescopic photographs, each showing tens of thousands of star images, in pairs under the blink comparator, or dual microscope. It often took three days to scan a single pair. It was exhausting, eye-cracking work-in his own words, "brutal tediousness." And it went on for months. Star by star, he examined 20 million images. Then on Feb. 18, 1930, as he was blinking a pair of photographs in the constellation Gemini, "I suddenly came upon...