Word: detect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...detect a note of bitterness from those housewives who are disturbed at Jackie Kennedy's "chic"? May I say, on behalf of the male sex, that we love her "devil-may-care chic" and "floor-mop" hairdo...
Snakes & Fish. Savely pointed out that nature is full of marvelously sensitive instruments. Rattlesnakes, for instance, find warm prey at night by means of heat-detecting organs that respond to a temperature change of one-thousandth of a degree. No man-made heat seeker can do anything like it. Neither can man-made gadgets approach the electronic virtuosity of those tropical fish that send out pulsed currents of electricity, presumably to keep them in touch with things around them. The system they use is not well understood, but it is known that one kind of fish can detect a current...
...eight rubbery arms an octopus has an excellent sense of touch. Its taste sensors, which seem to be concentrated around the rims of the clutching suckers, can detect chemical traces that are barely strong enough to affect a human tongue. It is equipped with a statocyst, an efficient apparatus just below the brain that acts like the gravity perceiver of the human inner ear, telling the octopus which direction...
...Buenos Aires on his first Latino concert tour, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Richard Tucker was booked for six performances. To his horror he soon developed a sore throat and then, far worse, lost his voice entirely. To round out the nightmare, Argentine doctors at first could not detect what ailed him. After two days of near-mute anxiety. Tucker was ready to pack and go home. At last, however, it was determined that Trencherman Tucker had wolfed down a plate of scrambled eggs with a hidden ingredient-a chip of enamel that had lodged in his throat and sabotaged his larynx...
...other good news. Last week for example, Lockheed's Agena-Discoverer satellite produced a space "first" when its nose cone was recovered after being placed in orbit (see SCIENCE). Lockheed is the prime contractor for the orbiting Midas satellite, which is equipped with infra-red sensors to detect the heat of ballistic missiles and send a warning back to earth. It is also working on the Samos global surveillance system. Along with the Martin Co., Lockheed was chosen fortnight ago to study the feasibility of a nuclear rocket, a development that Gross believes will "bring the next great technological...