Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened on a clear, hot morning. More than 150 embassy staff people were at work inside the five-story building. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor was in Washington for talks with President Johnson; left in charge was Deputy Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson. Out side the embassy, a sentry unit of six Saigon policemen ambled conversationally along the sidewalk...
...facts about an actual wartime crisis to fit a ludicrous tale of espionage. At the outset, the film seeks to establish its authenticity by popping in at 10 Downing Street, where Prime Minister Churchill (Patrick Wymark) asks Duncan Sandys (Richard Johnson) to head Operation Crossbow, an Anglo-American unit assigned to pinpoint and destroy Germany's V-1 buzz-bomb and V-2 rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill's scientific adviser, Professor F. A. Lindemann (Trevor Howard...
...battlefield at least half a dozen times, but never with much success. The first time was last December in an attempt to free four U.S. prisoners of the Viet Cong. U.S. officers hoped to incapacitate everyone, prisoners and captors alike, then send in a masked Special Forces Unit to rescue the Americans. The operation failed because the gas, squirted through air hoses from a helicopter overhead, could not penetrate the dense foliage...
...retrieve information with incredible speed-but that very speed makes it, in its way, superhuman. Inside the computer's refrigerator-like cabinet dwells an intricate network of thin wires, transistors, and hundreds of thousands of tiny magnetized metal rings, all strung together into a memory-and arithmetic-processing unit. The location of each fact stored in the computer's memory is no bigger than the tip of a match, and the computer never forgets these locations...
...computer receives its information, called input, from magnetic disks, magnetic tapes, punched cards or typewriter-like keyboards that feed the memory unit. Each fact is first translated into binary language, a system using two as a base instead of ten as in the decimal system, and then fed into the computer. Once it has received a given fact, the computer relays it to its memory unit via electronic impulses that "store" the numerically defined fact in several metal rings...