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Fiber optics might even be applied to code work. If a quarter of a million fibers are woven at random into a bundle so that its two ends are not identical, the image which passes in one end will be hopelessly scrambled when it emerges. The only way to unscramble it is to feed it back the way it came through an identical bundle. Since it is possible to produce two identical random bundles by winding the fibers on a drum and cutting the coil in half, the receiver could be equipped with a "decoding" bundle. Linked into a television...
...pilot (he set three speed records for seaplanes in a 1924 meet), later commander of naval forces in the Far East (1951-52), who served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group for the 1946 Bikini tests, in 1949 declared that strategic atomic bombing was little more than "random mass slaughter," militarily unsound and morally questionable; after long illness; in Bethesda...
...MUSES ARE HEARD (182 pp.)-Truman Capofe-Random House...
Last week the Federal Trade Commission, admonished by the U.S. Senate to watch more closely for "false and misleading" TV advertising, announced that it would begin monitoring radio and TV commercials for the first time (heretofore the FTC has merely scanned scripts picked at random...
Memory Machine. International Business Machines introduced a memory computer to step up office automation. The computer will tell a businessman immediately how daily transactions in sales, payroll, inventory, production, etc. affect any desired aspect of his business. Called RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting machine), the computer also serves as an electronic filing cabinet in which company figures are stored on 50 magnetic metal disks, will turn out any needed figure in seconds, thus eliminate endless hours of file checking. Rental per month...