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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The "Use" Systems. The basic research phase of the U.S. space program is well along, and the "use" systems are just now beginning to come breathtakingly into their own. Midas II is the forerunner of a system whose functional value as a deterrent against war is obvious. The Navy'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Space Surge | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

In 1957 the company first began offering medical insurance for oldsters under its "65-Plus" plan, which carries benefits up to $610 including surgeons' and physicians' fee, requires no physical examination, costs $6.50 per month. To trim the costs of handling policies, Continental relies on a giant IBM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Coverage for the Aged | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

The key to the navigation system is a common phenomenon first articulated scientifically little more than 100 years ago, when Austrian Physicist Johann Christian Doppler noted that sound waves coming from a moving object increase in frequency as the source of the sound approaches an observer, decrease as it moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rapid Transit | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Chess is the sort of game that mathematicians consider their own particular pumpkin pie. Many are the learned cybernetics treatises arguing that the world's best chess player may one day be a computing machine instead of a human (indeed, International Business Machines is even now perfecting a chess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Surprise & Confusion | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

Turned on by command from Jodrell Bank or Hawaii, this eerie voice conveys information that is relayed by teletype to the Space Technology Laboratories, Los Angeles, where Pioneer V was built. There it is put on punched cards and fed into a computer. Out comes a flood of figures that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: News from Space | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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