Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...development conference in Colombia. It is' a logical progression from symptom to cause. The symptom is the wide emotional response in Latin America to the nostrums proposed by Fidel Castro; the cause is the growing despair among Latin Americans over their inability to make the big breakthrough out of poverty and backwardness...
...doctors, all under 40, the new drug promises to become a potent weapon in the frustrating fight against staphylococcal infections. In U.S. clinical tests, Staphcillin proved effective against penicillin-resistant staph strains in nearly nine out of ten cases. And its successful com mercial synthesis offered hope of another breakthrough: development of nontoxic penicillins that can be administered with safety to allergic patients...
...burgeoning field of data processing, involving everything from billing customers to registering book club memberships, the optical scanner is a major, long-awaited breakthrough. The chief limitation of computers-aside from their inability to think except as told-is that they can record and process information only as fast as they are fed it, usually by bored and fallible humans who read the information, then punch it onto cards or tape for the computer. With the optical scanner, which can read up to 96,000 cards per day, the computer-and every paper-laden company-has found a powerful ally...
...This is President Eisenhower speaking." The President's words, spoken into a White House tape recorder months before, had just been broadcast from Goldstone, Calif., and had carried clearly across 2,500 miles of space to Holmdel's horn-shaped antenna. It was a major space-age breakthrough. After one earlier failure, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration had successfully launched an Echo satellite, a huge, metal ized balloon capable of reflecting radio messages from earth. The U.S. thus opened the door to a new system of inter continental communications unaffected by either the curvature...
...ballistic missiles and send a warning back to earth. It is also working on the Samos global surveillance system. Along with the Martin Co., Lockheed was chosen fortnight ago to study the feasibility of a nuclear rocket, a development that Gross believes will "bring the next great technological breakthrough...