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...blasted by the explosive effect of high-velocity meteors, some of them soft-edged secondary craters dug by low-speed debris from bigger impacts. The very last shot was taken when Ranger was about 1,000 ft. above the surface, and before impact the scanning beam had time to transmit only a part of it-an area 60 ft. by 100 ft. There, sharp and clear, were tiny craters no more than 3 ft. across. Careful study, said Dr. Kuiper, would almost surely show objects half...
Tokyo being Tokyo and gadget-minded Japanese being gadget-minded Japanese, some campaigner for municipal quiet has dreamed up the idea of erecting an electronic billboard to measure Nishi-Ginza's sound level, translate it into phons (decibels), and transmit it in illuminated numbers to a populace presumably shamed into silence. There it stands, beside a bold sign proclaiming BE MORE QUIET! THE NOISE AT THIS MOMENT: 78 PHONS. STANDARD FOR RESIDENTIAL AREA: 50 PHONS. BUSY CORNERS: 70 PHONS...
...passed for his characters, and for the reader, in the preceding 398 pages. Banality is what Farrell's novel is about, and it is also the novel's sole literary device. The people of the book are joyless, hateless, empty of good or evil, fleshy machines that transmit at the audible level the prattle of Babbittry and, octaves above, the silent scream of tedium. The prose in which they are described is also joyless and hateless, empty of merit and of error, painfully boring. And it is obvious that this is intentional. Farrell's setting...
...shares (at $20 apiece) to U.S. communications companies, executives of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were pleasantly surprised by the size of their allotment: 2,895,750 shares. That will give A.T. & T. by far the largest stake-a dominant 29% ownership-in the space company, which will transmit television programs, telephone calls and telegraph messages...
...Talk. Today, the company that thrives on talk is creating quite a bit of talk about itself-most of it by being long-nosed. In search of new and better ways to transmit words...