Word: tankful
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Bradley worked out his telefactoring plans while on the job at the Institute for Defense Analyses, an Arlington, Va., "think tank" that exists almost entirely on Defense Department contracts. The idea seemed so promising to DOD officials that they encouraged him to present it at the AIAA meeting, hoping to stimulate further development of telefactoring devices by private industry. That development, Bradley believes, is inevitable. He is already looking forward to the day when controllers will operate telefactor infantrymen from the safety of bunkers and casualties will be counted in machines...
...appearance of two Radcliffe companions: "It is like the friendship of an armored tank and a lettuce leaf...
Cutting Up the Slopes. The vast majority of snowmobilers use their sleds for recreation, find that one five-gallon tank of gas lasts all day and opens up untracked terrain that would otherwise be inaccessible. One 8-man group of diehards is even planning to embark next month from northern Canada on a three-week, 800-mile snowmobile trip to the North Pole, pulling equipment and supplies along on sleds behind them. There is a practical side to snowmobiles too. In the Western states and New England they are replacing snowshoes for telephone linemen, country doctors, trappers, game wardens, farmers...
...veterans of CBS's distinguished series, The 20th Century, set out to make some documentary sense of the maze of recent discoveries in genetics. An explanation of man's increasing control over the mechanics of reproduction is backed up by films of parthenogenetic frogs swimming in a tank. They are identical to their mother, and so might they be, having been made in a laboratory without benefit of father...
When Geneticist James Bonner appears on-screen to speculate about a test-tube superman race between the nations of the world a century from now, the uneasy viewer may feel that he is in the tank with those frogs. A man will "not "brazenly go out and propagate himself," Bonner predicts coolly, but will contribute sperm cells to a central bank, his heirs to be manufactured after his death if a committee decides that he has been a desirable and useful figure in society. On this forecast, echoing the ancient complaint against Plato's "Guardians," English Professor Ritchie Calder...