Word: milliseconds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suspicious Ladder. Each Phantom carries anywhere from three to nine cameras, including infra-red equipment, as well as side-looking radar, all linked to the aircraft's navigational gear in order to record precise locations-and trip the camera shutters at just the right millisecond. On return to Udorn, automatic machines swiftly process the film in trailers set up beside the runway, and highly skilled (and suspicious) photo interpreters, or PIs, scan it for hours, looking for the smallest telltale detail: a ladder left at a cave entrance, a small dot of light that might be a campfire, vehicle...
...first picture to the Berliner Tageblatt. He had been using a camera since the age of twelve (his first subject: the family bathroom), studied light in the works of Rembrandt and Rubens. But it was his ability to be at the right place at the right time, plus millisecond timing, that by 1931 made him the Associated Press's star Berlin photographer, the man who caught the mature genius in 14-year-old Yehudi Menuhin and recorded the cautious size-up of Hitler's first meeting with Mussolini...
Russian Scientist Vladimir Kotelnikov checked and rechecked the calclations, but the answer remained essentially the same: between March 1963 and October 1965, the rotation of the earth slowed down so much that the average day lengthened by 1.6 milliseconds-or about one six-hundredth of a second. The result was "extremely unexpected," a surprised Kotelnikov told the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The length of a day had increased only one millisecond (one-thousandth of a second) during the previous 120 years...
...awed spectator felt that he was witnessing "what the first man would have seen at that moment in creation when God said, 'Let there be light.' " To another observer, Harvard Chemistry Professor George Kistiakowsky, the blast suggested the last impression of "the last man in the last millisecond of the earth's existence." In reality, of course, the road from Alamogordo has led neither to Eden nor to Armageddon but to atomic stalemate, to a world in which the superpowers between them have ten tons of nuclear destruction for every human being on earth...
...Gary S. Zukav who saved the show. As Security, the usurer, he got the first laughs of the evening, and continued to get them until the very end. He knew when to walk quickly and when slowly, when to speak loud, when soft. He knew to the millisecond how much time to leave between a matter-of-fact "I'm a cuckold" and a startled "what...