Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...space probe that has been 'designed' by selection to pass Mars, but that has no further built-in instructions once it has done so, and no components specifically produced to last longer than that. It will travel on, but the failure rate in its guidance and control mechanisms will steadily increase-and this failure of homeostasis, or self-righting, is exactly what we see in the aging organism...
...power and wander around, bitter and disgruntled, unable even to talk the same language as their juniors, like Swift's awful immortals, the struld-brugs? Would conflict between generations supersede hostility between classes and races? How could insurance and pension plans continue payments for decades longer? Will aging control become as vital an issue as birth control? In short, the changes resulting from a drastic extension of the lifespan, or even from a series of life-extending bonuses, may eventually exceed those brought about by splitting the atom or man's voyages to the moon...
...President has special reason to be pleased. By 1972, if his advisers are correct, inflation will be under control, national output will again be growing at about its optimum rate of 41% yearly, and unemployment will be down. That would create an auspicious climate for Nixon's re-election campaign...
...what they have now is like food after a fast. The aerospace industry has been jolted by cutbacks in military and space projects. Demands are rising in and out of Congress that even more Government spending be switched away from military projects to civilian needs like housing and pollution control. Aerospace sales for this year are expected to be about $28 billion, down from a peak $30 billion...
...lately helped the industry by passing out several new contracts. But most were relatively small awards for preliminary research on projects that will take years to become rich money makers-if they ever do. Boeing, for example, was selected this month to begin work on the Airborne Warning and Control System. Though the project could be worth $2 billion by 1976, the initial payment was a meager $16.5 million...