Word: statics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accuracy required miracles of designed precision. The huge aluminum antenna floats, for instance, on a film of oil not much thicker than a human hair, moves on a 30-ton bearing with the ease of a ship's gyro. The oil bearing eliminates what engineers call "stiction," for static friction, enables the antenna to rotate through more than three degrees of arc in less than one second, make a complete 180-degree about-face in less than one minute. With such agility, Haystack can track anything that can be tossed into space, right down to a fast, low-altitude...
...dilemma that faced the Doty Committee was whether it could recast General Education in a form both strong and comprehensible, whether it could give unity and meaning to the program without making Gen Ed static and rigid, whether it could retain or even add a broad range of offerings without being lost in a welter of contradictory goals...
Fish in Bowls. As the Kontakte musical score-a mixture of taped airport drones, traffic noise, radio static, mixed in with homemade sounds from drum, piano, saxophone and cello-unwinds, the performers follow carefully drawn stage directions. At 48 minutes sharp, for instance, the percussionist is instructed to "feed all animals, fish in bowls, birds and/or fowl in cages or wooden crates. A stuffed bird in cage is also fed." The director is told "to enter with an ape or with a pack of dogs on leash." At 68 minutes, the painter is instructed to "begin throwing nails on magnetic...
...intellectualized country in the Russian orbit. By all accounts, it should have been an Iron Curtain showplace-and for a while it was. But after running at an annual growth rate of between 8% and 11% in the late 1950s, Czechoslovakia's gross national product has remained almost static at about $18.5 billion since 1961. The heavily controlled economy is now falling so far short of targets that its five-year plans have been abandoned...
...capacitors, a resistor and a hearing-aid battery- all miniaturized items developed by the Air Force. Once the radio denture is in place, the subject enters a Faraday cage, a metal-mesh enclosure that blocks out most outside electrical disturbances. As the subject chews and drinks in his static-free environment, his tooth transmitter gives out a signal every time two spots of gold on the chewing surfaces of two opposing teeth come together. In addition, a muscle-tension detector attached to the skin of his jaw is connected to an electromyograph. The signals from the chewing teeth...