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...tape is fed to a computer, which sucks it up at inhuman speed, measuring the width of letters and counting the spaces in a swift stream of words. When it gets near the end of a line, it does what a human typesetter would do, adding spaces if necessary to fill out the line. When it comes to a word that has to be hyphenated, which happens about every five lines, it hesitates momentarily while it consults a quick-access memory. If the word has a recognizable prefix or a familiar ending, such as -ing or -tion, the memory tells...
...walk of Novelist Jones's title refers to the picaresque progress of the book's hero across the width of Wales in search of the father who had abandoned him and his impoverished mother years before. The highway, like the highways of Fielding or Smollett, yields a complete novelist's kit of cutpurses and murderers, madmen and saints. The hero is set upon by mastiffs, trampled to insensibility by a mob, and nearly deprived of his virginity by a jade. He meets a cold-eyed man accompanied by a pox-pitted villain named Scabbo...
...surgeons put clamps on the aorta both above and below the constriction. Dr. Newman made an inch-long cut in the aorta's wall and stitched in a plastic (Teflon) gusset, two-thirds of an inch wide at the base. This made the great artery a uniform width from the aortic valve to its big bend. Ro Anne's temperature hit a low of 77°, then a double electric shock restarted her heart. The pump-cooler was disconnected, and Ro Anne's chest was closed. For the first time in her life, her blood...
...type of radio telescope does not try to observe celestial objects with a single antenna. Instead, two antennas are placed a considerable distance apart and connected electronically so that they function like parts of a single, very large dish. Since a telescope's resolution is proportionate to its width, the double antenna has a far narrower beam than a single dish. Even finer resolution is obtained by long, rocking metal troughs that gather radio waves and focus them so that they interact with waves gathered by another antenna running at right angles to the first. In Australia...
...will change. Under way in the Arkansas basin is one of the most costly river-development programs in U.S. history. To be completed in 1970, the project will spend $1.2 billion (against $1 billion for the St. Lawrence Seaway) to create a navigable channel 9 ft. deep with a width of 150-250 ft. all the way from the Mississippi 516 miles west to the town of Catoosa, Okla...