Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heat by light recently got its biggest vote of confidence from two Chicago companies. The First National Bank of Chicago, which is about to start construction on a 60-story structure in the shape of a curved, inverted V, plans to use a similar system to heat the entire building. Last month, the John Hancock Insurance Co. announced that the 34 floors of office space in its planned 100-story, combination office-apartment building (TIME, April 2) will also be heated with light...
...long as two months. A pressurized cylinder about the size of a small house trailer, 10 ft. in diameter and 20 to 30 ft. long, the MOL would be heaved into orbit by the 2,400,000-lb. thrust of an Air Force Titan IIIC booster. But the size, shape and orbit of the capsule are the least of anyone's concern in a profession that already talks of manned journeys to the moon and beyond. It is the experiments that the occupants of a MOL will perform during its prolonged flight that are remarkable. As an Air Force...
After graduation, Dunn briefly considered becoming a missionary ("A young man feels he has to serve") and entered a Capuchin monastery. He describes his religious experiences as "an intellectual process, probably of parabolic shape." After six months he decided he could not accept the dogma and left...
...VOICE PRINTS may solve the now virtually impossible task of catching obscene, threatening and anonymous phone callers. Variations in size and shape of vocal cavities give each human voice a unique sound, explains Bell Telephone Labs' Dr. Lawrence G. Kersta, who developed the technique. By means of a sound spectrograph, Kersta converts spoken words into picture patterns that he says identify the speaker as reliably as his fingerprints. The system works no matter how the voice is disguised. At this stage, voice prints require wiretapping, which may pose legal problems, but someday police may record every suspect...
...indictment charged that the defendants arranged during a series of clandestine meetings in hotel rooms between 1955 and 1961 to subtly rig the thousands of "extra" charges that steel companies make for tailoring sheets to specific size, shape, weight, quality and chemical or metallurgical content. Such extras account for 16% of the $2 billion-a-year carbon-sheet business done by the eight firms...