Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From a purely rational point of view he would be right. A machine that records the shape and transparency of your fingers on a strip of magnetic tape--no central files are kept, so the authorities don't know anything about your hand--is no more invidious than the cameras they use for bursar cards now. People who don't balk at showing an ID card every time they want to get into the dining room or the library stacks should have no qualms about hand prints. It's the same principle. The new system is only...
These two one-acters are hilariously extended anecdotes in the U.S. tradition of the tall story. Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur...
Excess Power. Unlike NASA'S traditional configuration, Sandia's upright eggbeater does not have to turn to face the breeze; its symmetrical shape offers the same surface to winds from any direction. Cribbing from jet aircraft, Polytechnic Institute of New York engineers are experimenting with a delta-shaped airfoil used in conjunction with standard windmill rotors. Pointing into the wind, the triangular whig amplifies the wind's power at least fivefold; the wind is focused into whirling streams that strike the rotors. Other teams at General Electric and at Connecticut's Kaman Corp., a helicopter manufacturer...
Underlying all of the institutional buying is greater confidence that the economic recovery now taking shape will continue and that the market is not just enjoying a temporary spurt before the Dow worries itself back down to the 500s. Warnings that prices will collapse again can still be heard along Wall Street, chiefly among chartists. But they are outnumbered by newly optimistic money managers who predict that the industrial average will at least break through 900 by year's end, though probably not without a downward stumble of 10% to 25% in stock values at some point along...
...keep U.S. combat forces in top shape, Stilwell has ordered an exhausting training regimen, and no outfit has carried his orders further than the 2nd Division. Each quarter, every unit of the 2nd undergoes two weeks of training in night fighting; the men sleep during the day and maneuver at night in rugged terrain to accustom themselves to the night attacks employed by Communist troops 25 years ago. Every six months the division's infantrymen participate in air-mobile exercises complete with artillery support, helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers-and live ammunition...