Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the student finishers reading a text on the screen, he presses a key on the teletype to signal that he is ready to continue. His mechanical teacher then fires a question at him and waits for a response. The correct answer typed back will elicit a "Good" or "That's fine" followed by more questions or new material on the slide screen. If the student's answer is incorrect he'll get a "No" with an explanation and perhaps a mild chiding, "What are you going to do when we get to the hard questions...
...Passenger Potential. It might also signal a new era in civilian-pas-senger and freight transportation. Lockheed plans to put out a nonmilitary version of the C-5-the L-500-by 1971. In an all-passenger configuration, the L-500 could conceivably carry up to 1,000 people, which would allow airlines to slice New York-London fares...
Unity in Kinship. Documenta uses three castles to signal three trends. Striking the keynote in the Fridericianum are the signal-flag squares of German-born Josef Albers, who lives and works in the U.S. They are accompanied by the shaped, geometric and op canvases of his many European and American admirers. A room is lit with the disks of California's Robert Irwin (TiME, May 10). Highceilinged, cathedral-like galleries are filled with the gigantic rainbows of U.S. color-field painters and the authoritative sculpture of the U.S. minimalists...
...such stands as that of the New York Daily News, which facetiously urged that the voting age be raised to 30, or lowered to two. Johnson sees today's 18-year-olds "prepared by education, experience and exposure to public affairs." Letting them vote would be a signal "that they are trusted." This trust will have to permeate Congress and the legislatures of 38 states before the electorate gets its infusion of youth...
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