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...outfit is pure hippie Latin American bandido-black boots, silver-belted denims, Navajo vest, and a purple velours gaucho hat patted down over his colossal corona of frizzy hair. On the hat is a button that reads, "Let's Brag a Little." So he does: "What I don't like about being on the road, man, is that you only remember each town by the broads. Like the blonde broad with the mole, she's from Frisco -things like that...
...snap. After starting the engine and the J-2's conventional push prop, the pilot depresses a lever at the side of his seat, temporarily engaging the engine to the overhead rotor. When the overhead ro tor reaches 520 r.p.m., the pilot pushes a button to disengage the rotor and change its blade pitch from flat to 5°. While the kinetic energy in the whirling rotor blades provides lift, the engine delivers full power to the pusher prop. Between the lift and push, the gyroplane becomes airborne...
...minimize errors-a major problem in back-office operations-the machine displays each message on its video-type screen so that the clerk can proofread it before pushing the "transmit" button. Best of all, the data is fed directly into a computer that automatically relays it to the proper branch office. The system thus eliminates one of the most time-consuming aspects of back-office paperwork: matching buy and sell reports from exchanges with each customer's original order and passing the word along to the salesman...
Luminal artists commonly require the viewer to push a button or step on a lever in order to activate their art, but Manhattan's Hans Haacke, 31 , has dreamed up an ingenious way of getting the viewer to turn on the art with out really trying. On display last week in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery was a small white room, lined on four walls with 28 electric bulbs at shoulder level. When the viewer walked into the room, the four lights centering on him lit up in unison. When he moved, other bulbs lit up, chasing...
...measure the distance between the two reference points, the patrolman flips on the distance switch when he reaches the first point, turns it off as he passes the second. Now the patrol car's odometer has fed distance into VASCAR, which at the push of a third button automatically computes the average speed at which the motorist traveled the measured distance...