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...pictures fed to the TV networks came from a newly-developed device called a scan converter, which speeded up signals from the spacecraft so that they could be received on standard broadcast sets...
...above most of the dust and water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere, high enough for a clear look at the dark-blue daytime sky where stars and planets glow with hardly diminished brilliance. Most important of all, it was high enough for the mechanized scope to scan accurately the infra red rays from the sun that were being bounced off Venus...
...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 In many places classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated.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...