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Calculating with split-second exactitude, NASA scientists had determined the proper time of Gemini 6's launch by the position and orbit of Gemini 7. Because the earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours, while Gemini 7 was circling around it once every 96 minutes, there were only one or two brief periods a day when the launch pad for Gemini 6 was located approximately under Gemini 7's orbit and when the orbiting ship was close by-the proper launch "window" for a rendezvous attempt. For Wednesday, ideal launch time had been calculated...
...states, with each voter carrying a permanent registration number, much the way Americans already have Social Security, draft and credit numbers. Says he: "In the future, electronic scanners at polling places will very probably be able to identify voters, or prevent repeats and unauthorized ballots, by a split-second survey of a voter's thumb...
...glimpses shot almost subliminally on the screen, followed by a somewhat organized grouping of images. The audience thus enters Nazemann's mind as he struggles both to recall and repress his past until consciousness finally wins. A dog barking on a Harlem street, for example, calls forth terrifying, split-second sequences of German police dogs alternating with the blackness of the Negro ghetto until Nazemann begins to see the dog tearing at his best friend's heels and the man clutching the prison fence in fear...
...keep the ideas flowing and allow himself time for second thoughts requires split-second scheduling, and Anhalt has taken to dictating to himself into a tiny microphone clipped onto the lapel of his jacket and picked up by a transistorized tape recorder at his side as he tears along the superhighways in his cream-colored Lancia. The process has caused Anhalt to crack up three cars in the past two years. But the price is cheap. For Hollywood's busy scriptwriter, just another tax deduction...
...Japanese company capable of providing time clocks for the 1964 Games, for the sake of national honor, Hattori was ready. Last week, after an investment of $850,000 in research, Hattori's men unveiled 1,300 ingenious Olympic time devices. They ranged from nine varieties of split-second stop watches to an electronic judge of swimming events that: 1) clocks swimmers to 1/1,000th of a second; 2) memorizes individual lap times of up to nine swimmers at a time; and 3) prints all scores on a sheet of paper the instant the race is over, thus eliminating time...