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First (see diagram below) he fired a short burst of backward burn from the thrusters, lowering Gemini's apogee by 13 miles. Almost 40 minutes later, he triggered a forward burn to raise the perigee ten miles. Next he yawed the spacecraft and fired the aft thrusters to move...
Skatinq in the Stacks. For specialized libraries in particular, the only answer to suffocation by paper is automation, which runs from the crudest idea to the most dazzling concept of the sophisticated mind. In the Detroit Public Library, book procurement is speeded up by sending boys whizzing down the 250...
Apart from the problem of translation, the technology of bibliographic control in scientific fields is already a reality. A leader in the field is the National Library of Health in Bethesda, Md., which tries to acquire every publication relating to medicine. Librarians feed selected references from articles in 2,400...
They roared into action when a police radio squawked "QK-7554"-the license number of an oncoming Corvair. "It's a hit!" chortled one cop. "I've got the warrant!" shouted another. The cops flagged down the Corvair, flashed their warrant and arrested the driver-Gloria Placente, 34...
Swooping in Seconds. What happened to Mrs. Placente was the first public demonstration of "Operation Corral"-an acronym that police flacks spell out as "Computer Oriented Retrieval of Auto Larcenists." The core of Corral is a borrowed UNIVAC 490, one of Sperry Rand's $500,000 "real time" computers...