Word: verticale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At first the TV screen turned all grey. Then the image took shape, teasingly, as if appearing from behind a slow-parting curtain that moved from left to right. While faint beep-beep-beeps were heard in the background, the picture grew in a series of vertical lines.
Tilt Test. Among the most encouraging postflight medical findings was the almost total absence of any symptoms of orthostatic hypotension-a condition that could result from weightlessness and lead to an increase in the heart rate, coupled with a sharp drop in blood pressure. Doctors have always feared that this...
TV cameramen on the Lake Champlain used Polaroid cameras to snap the pictures that were scanned by Videx. Each picture was scanned for 40 seconds; each frame consisted of 400 vertical lines, compared with the 525 horizontal lines of ordinary TV images. The pictures were transmitted by radio from the...
The Guild enjoys no such cohesion. A so-called "vertical" union, it embraces all sorts of employees, from editorial writers to janitors, who have little contact with each other. Though newsmen tend to champion the union movement in theory, they are hard to organize-as are most white-collar workers...
In any war, it takes time to convert to forward motion the inertia that follows a massive buildup of arms. Last week the vast engine of military power that the U.S. has installed in South Viet Nam was finally warming to its task. A new air of confidence pervaded the...