Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, January 4 ABC STAGE 67 (ABC. 10-11 p.m.).* "The Trap of Solid Gold" explores the familiar paradox of the executive who can't live on his income. Starring those newlyweds, Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill...
...will be sent to Cairo's Ein Shams University. There they will be fed into a computer that will calculate and memorize the point at which each recorded muon penetrated the surface of the pyramid. Because cavities within the pyramid offer less resistance to speeding muons than does solid stone, a greater number of muons will penetrate to the spark chamber along paths that take them through corridors and burial chambers. The computer will thus remember that certain well-defined areas of the pyramid's surface were penetrated by more recorded muons than the remaining surface area...
...Alvarez hopes they are there, awaiting only the arrival of his spark chamber to be found. "After a boyhood spent watching his father's workers erecting a beautiful and complex series of chambers and passages in the Great Pyramid," he asks, "would Chephren be content to erect a solid and uninteresting pile of limestone blocks as his own pyramid...
Dirt Cheap. Williams has five solid prospects waiting to sign up for his $175,000 anachronism, dozens of inquiries from prospective customers here and abroad. Dirt cheap to operate and maintain, the Bushmaster 2000 may well be used for years to come for short-haul cargo and passenger services, specialized operations such as crop spraying, fire fighting, timber dusting, exploratory and rescue work...
...exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution is a solid-state computer of 1957 vintage, the first practical large-scale model ever built. This cybernetic antique served as the guidance system for U.S. ICBMs until 1961 and ticked off more than 300 countdowns. The unit was built by the Burroughs Corp. of Detroit, which, though short on share of market-less than 4% com pared with IBM's 75%-is long on invention, reliability, and lately, profits...