Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under attack. For example, Detroit's John C. Lodge Expressway is testing an ingenious control system. Fourteen TV cameras, mounted on bridges over a particularly congested three-mile stretch, transmit pictures of cars to a 14-screen big-brother console near by. Technicians at the console can zoom in their lenses for closeup shots of any single suspicious vehicle; on several occasions they have watched on television while a smashup or a breakdown occurs. Then they call a policeman and throw switches that change speed-limit signs, block ramps, and turn on big red X signs over the lane...
...Bernstein's answers: sewerage is the system through which sewage flows. Whereabouts is singular. A pupil becomes a student, according to Bernstein anyway, upon entering high school. Since U.S. justice presumes a defendant's innocence, Beck did not plead innocent; he pleaded not guilty. Hawks, etc. zoom in one direction only: up. It takes two moving cars to collide. Mr. Getty made his fortune; it did not make itself...
...Ping-pong reconnaissance missile, fired with a bazookalike launcher, is programmed to zoom over an enemy position, take pictures, then fire reverse rockets to fly back to the launch site and land by parachute...
...Know's "Let's Lipread," and not only is it guaranteed not to awaken the rest of the family or the neighbors, but it is fine preparation for those moments when the Early Bird satellite broadcasts' audio breaks down or for determining what politicians caught by zoom lenses on convention floors are saying to one another. For those not fortunate enough to live on the New York-Washington axis, there are a few other worthy shows on the networks...
With decisive labor and Negro votes, Democrats have controlled St. Louis for years. Cervantes' G.O.P. opponent was Maurice R. Zumwalt, 62, a storm-door manufacturer who twice before had run for office and had lost. The Republican gave it all he had. He put up signs that said "Zoom with Zumwalt," staged a 30-hour sit-in outside the office of the Board of Election Commissioners to emphasize his demands that police protection be provided at every polling place. A red-jacketed waiter served Zumwalt a steak dinner in the lobby, where the candidate spent the night...