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Small Ripple. He now describes the term Angry Young Men as "a journalistic label that is meaningless." The writers so described, he says, are actually artists who deal in social protest but do not hack at it; they symbolize no social revolution. "I wish there were a social revolution in England." he says, "but there hasn't been a ripple...
...engineers traced the trouble to a single transistor called the "zero gate" designed to react to short pulses-coded zeros-in command signals. With the zero-counting transistor blocked by ions, the decoder could receive no zeros, and a binary code, which consists only of zeros and ones, is meaningless if deprived of half its vocabulary...
...Governor's mansion, Lenore wants to make "a real breakthrough in human relations by bringing people together as people-just like George has enunciated. Women have a very interesting role in this, and I don't expect to be a society leader holding a series of meaningless teas...
...Passes. The most spectacular work is done by supersonic jets flying at palmtop level. This is always dangerous-today s jets are so fast that they may crash into a mountain before their pilots even sense trouble. During a low pass, everything blurs into meaningless streaks, like a fence a few feet from a speeding car Landmarks disappear. Objects to be photographed sweep under the plane and are gone in a fraction of a second...
High-Flying Pad. Skybolt's defenders insist that the five test failures are virtually meaningless; almost all missiles have failed in their early tests, including Polaris. The Skybolt enthusiasts say that their bird, along with Polaris and Minuteman, would give the U.S. greater missile flexibility-an aim long pursued by the Kennedy Administration. Minuteman's fixed bases can presumably be pinpointed and destroyed by an enemy, and Polaris' submarines move into position at only 30 knots, but Skybolt's bombers can fly at more than 600 m.p.h...