Word: methods
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...maiden errors, and (if all goes well) to bring it down intact for study and improvement. Guided missiles depend on artificial brains which need to be tested themselves, and they are seldom recovered except as a mass of wreckage. To test a new missile by the cut-and-try method of actual flight is expensive not only in money, but also in more precious time...
According to Reeves and the Navy, this method is far more effective than building real missiles and firing them into real air. When the simulated flights turn out well, a metal-and-fire missile can be built from figures supplied by the settings of the computer's knobs...
...another method of testing guided missiles, see SCIENCE...
...Gratified Public. The sight of crowds stoning the swinging bodies pleased even Dr. Samuel Johnson. Thundered Johnson, in 1783, when there was talk of abandoning the execution procession from Newgate to Tyburn: "No, Sir! ... executions are intended to draw spectators . . . The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?" Twenty years before public hangings were finally abolished (in 1868), Charles Dickens begged to differ: "I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity...
That year they had 62 students, the next year 78. By last week the Foreign Student Summer Project seemed to be a solid M.I.T. institution. Among its alumni: a West German who is building Bavaria's first electronic computer, a Norwegian who has discovered a new method of making gelatin out of seaweed, a Finn who has become editor of Finland's leading architectural magazine...