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High Spy. Sharp-eyed aerial cameras, such as those that enabled the U-2 to chart thousands of square miles of the Soviet Union, have also moved into the realm of commerce. They spot diseased trees in a lumber company's forest, take a quick inventory of grapes while they are still on the vine, measure the size of a coal stockpile for a utility company and point to the best spot for a coal miner to dig in. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio even takes aerial-type shots of a steer, then analyzes the animal...
...Students. "I don't think I would be allowed to study what I want like this anywhere else," says Micaéla Székely, a charming exchange student from the University of Paris, with degrees in philosophy and political science. Student Székely, who aims to chart the links between politics and literature in 19th century England, is leery of simple generalization, but says: "This is different. Here you must know something before you can cross the lines; you must have the background. It is hard, but it is done right...
Deep below deck, with all the mindless certainty of a Ouija board, a marking pen moved by steel fingers glided across a nautical chart of Narragansett Bay. As he followed the pen's thin red line, a Navy lieutenant, cut off from any view of the water, telephoned commands to the bridge. At each command, the helmsman altered course, and the 65-ft. test ship Alan threaded neatly among islands and inlets. Each change in direction and speed was instantly recorded by the moving...
...changed in frequency by the movement of the ship. This easily detected frequency shift is the celebrated Doppler effect, and a computer translates the change into speed-and-direction instructions for the automatic marking pen. A single dial adjusts the navigator to the scale of any standard marine chart. And last week's sea trial found the new Doppler sonar accurate within a startling...
...most dramatic test of the new navigator last week, a sailor-sized, life-jacketed dummy nicknamed "Oscar" was pitched off the stern. At the shout "Man overboard!", the lieutenant in the hold marked the chart and began barking commands. When the red line had curved back on itself, there was Oscar, 10 yds. to port, in more danger of being run down than drowned...