Word: verticale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When American helicopter crewmen in South Viet Nam begin a mission over Communist territory, they never fail to take foot-square chunks of thick steel plate. As seat pads, the pieces of steel are not much comfort. But as protection from Red bullets, they often mean the difference between life...
Tension and discontent characterize the Park Avenue "campus," a rather amusing word to most students. A college handbook describes the tall building which comprises "Hunter downtown" as a "vertical campus." Students are franker: "this is like going to school in an office building."
Since the chicken-wire dish is firmly attached to the ground, it cannot be turned mechanically. But by changing the position of the dangling waveguide that feeds radio energy from above, it can be swung electronically 20° north or south of vertical. The rotation of the earth takes care...
The heart of the project are the sweep-frequency receivers mounted on steel racks in the lab. Each receiver is simply an elaborate radio with a radio telescope for an antenna and lacks any sort of speaker for the sound to come out. Like an ordinary radio, these receivers can...
The kingdom of Jordan is hard at work on a peculiar problem: how to keep tourists from drowning in the desert. Such startling accidents actually do occur. Last spring, when a flash flood from a rare rainstorm roared down the Siq, a vertical-walled cleft that leads to the famous...