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Ears in Cigarettes. Mosler Vice President Ralph V. Ward believes that the best all-purpose bug is a "three-wire tap": a small transmitter that can be fitted in less than a minute into the base of a telephone. When clipped to the proper terminals, it picks up every word...
Now a lawyer who wants to find out what New York state courts have ruled on a particular point will no longer have to plow through shelfloads of books -he can simply ask Sperry Rand's Univac III. A Law Research Service law yer translates the inquiry into a...
The noise that comes back from the bottom is changed in frequency by the movement of the ship. This easily detected frequency shift is the celebrated Doppler effect, and a computer translates the change into speed-and-direction instructions for the automatic marking pen. A single dial adjusts the navigator...
In somewhat simpler terms, what Enthoven really does is prepare McNamara's shopping list. He welcomes, indeed he solicits, recommendations about weapons systems from professional military men. But as often as not, those recommendations do not stand up under his own independent analysis; in whiz-kid terminology, professional military...
In Africa and Latin America this policy translates into an effort not to win allies, or even friends, but to help build stable, peaceable and economically sturdy nations, hopefully with governments "responsive to the consent of the governed." In Latin America, that is the goal of the Administration's...