Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...film was shot in Stereovision, a new and allegedly improved process of stereoptical cinematography designed to adapt 3-D to the CinemaScope wide screen. Although the moviegoer still has to wear flimsy and uncomfortable Polaroid goggles that allow the two separate images on the screen to merge in his mind, some improvement is apparent, particularly in the definition of images. The actors still look strangely diminished, far away, unreal, like little plaster figures in a photographed tableau...
...described the strategy of the present Administration as a "series of entangling alliances." The State Department has refused to adapt the strategy to changing conditions, he continued, as examples the growing number of nations with atomic weapons, and the world-wide revolution of former colonial peoples...
M.I.T.'s civil engineering students will take courses in modern physics, thermodynamics, electrical engineering, statistical theory, operations research and computer development. They will also study social and political factors that influence engineering applications. Says M.I.T.'s Dr. John Wilbur: "All the structures, ground facilities and processes that adapt and control environment are the concern of the civil engineer...
...transforming the whole façade and function of the jet age's gateway: the airport. Nations and cities are taking a searching second look at the airports that served the piston-plane age -and finding them wanting. The result is an immense worldwide building boom to adapt them to the new and challenging problems-for pilots, passengers and cities -of the 600 m.p.h. jet planes. In the U.S. new or better airports are blossoming in Seattle, Miami, San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles-and dozens of other airports are also undergoing major face-liftings...
Elephant Walk. "Under increased gravity," says Wunder, after studying motion pictures of his high-G hamsters, "the hamsters walk around and seem to adapt very nicely, but their walking pattern is more like an elephant than a hamster. They're a bit perturbed about having to carry a bigger load." When young mice or hamsters are put on a centrifuge, they usually lose considerable weight for three or four days. "Apparently they have trouble digesting their food," says Dr. Wunder. "They level off and gain back their original weight, but they never get as big as ordinary mice...