Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pinched Budget. Head Start administrators see their problem in the fact that under HEW the individual states would control the program and possibly curtail its scope. Traditional support for state control is one reason for the longstanding Republican opposition to OEO. When Head Start proved to be not only a resounding success but also a catalyst for integration, Southern Democrats joined the opposition. Now OEO fears that segregationists would deliberately downgrade the program in the South...
...them I know! Many of these super-rich seem to be technological arrivistes. Your own fascinating rise from obscurity (forgive me) typifies the phenomenon. Even though you graduated from Caltech with honors (in 1953!), who ever expected that your invention of some electronic what's-it-scope would lead to your having your own company and then to your being bought...
Slowly he moved his free Shakespeare uptown, expanding his company's scope with whatever funds he could beg from foundations and individuals. In 1962 the city chipped in $250,000 and George T. Delacorte Jr., chairman of the board of Dell Publishing, gave $150,000 to build the open-air theater in Central Park. Conversion of the Astor Library into the Public Theater will ultimately cost $3,000,000, of which Papp has raised only $1,000,000 so far. The annual budget of Papp's company...
Heart of the starlight scope is its image-intensifier tube, a sturdy combination of the home TV screen and miniaturized space-age electronics. Focused sharply by the scope's front lens, the slightest flickers of light are directed against a chemical film, causing it to discharge electrons. Boosted along by a 15,000-volt electrostatic field, those electrons smack into a phosphorcoated screen whose light then jars loose still another flock of electrons. The process is repeated three times, and the high-voltage electron acceleration, or energy buildup, produces a progressively brighter image. Besides the light, the only other...
Despite the starlight scope's relative simplicity, the Army's Night Vision Laboratory at Fort Belvoir, Va., had to spend countless hours and $20 million on the design before it was ready for production. One particularly nagging problem was the difficulty of transmitting the image from one stage to the next without excessive distortion or loss of light. Army researchers, under Electrical Engineer Robert S. Wiseman, known as "Mr. Night Vision" to his colleagues, overcame that hurdle by using fiber optics. These unusual lenses are made up of bundles of extremely thin glass fibers, each of which transmits...