Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers of Bradbury's science fiction will guess, his Martians are no mere bogymen. They are highly intelligent, peace-loving beings who happen to land on the earth by error while on their way to another planet. All they want is to repair their space ship and move on. They do not want to encounter any human beings, who have not reached the advanced stage of civilization essential to such a meeting. The Martians' appearance-the face is a bare, embryo-like mass with a looming eye fixed in the center-would alarm the humans...
CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WONDERFUL REPORTORIAL JOB ON 3-D, BIG SCREEN, ETC. I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT, HOWEVER, THESE SOMEWHAT MINOR ERRORS: DR. JULIAN GUNZBURG IS NO OPTICIAN BUT AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST WHOSE CHIEF ACTIVITY AS AN M.D. IS EYE SURGERY ; THE 3-D EXPERT . . . WHOM YOU QUOTE AS SAYING THAT THE FIRST 3-D PICTURES WERE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH A 4-INCH INTEROCULAR, IS IN ERROR. MOST NATURAL VISION EQUIPMENT USES APPROXIMATELY A 3-INCH INTEROCULAR, SOME...
...Neutralist. By hedging a little on earlier attitudes, he was able to clothe his position in a cautious reserve: "No imaginable policy could enable us to escape if, unhappily, a new war were to break out. That is the fundamental error of the so-called 'neutralist' thesis." But he sounded pretty neutralist himself; he promised to submit a plan (unspecified) to the Bermuda conference for "lightening the load" in Indo-China. He was earnest about ratification of the European Defense Community Treaty, but hinted that defeat on this point would not cause him to dissolve parliament. He advocated...
...loved it, even when he hurled his racket skyward shrieking. "Ye gods! Is there no justice?" after a linesman made a close call against him. Hands on hips, defying all tennis convention, Big Bill would glower at the offending official and ask coldly: "Would you like to correct your error...
With all their electronic cunning, scientists are steadily weeding out possibilities for human error. In the process, they have packed the airplane with a hefty load of gear. Well-equipped modern airliners are likely to carry both low-and very-high-frequency communication sets, a couple of low-frequency radio compasses, a radio altimeter, perhaps even an airborne radar...