Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...classical; and the Ruth Page-Bentley Stone Ballet Company's big number, Frankie and Johnny, was just raw American barbarism to the French audience (TIME, May 22). As the first shock wore off, the audiences and critics became more tolerant but hardly less puzzled. Last week a second wave of U.S. dancers reached Paris...
...computers, SEAC does most of its thinking with 12,800 germanium crystal diodes-modern descendants of the "crystals" in oldtime radios. The diodes are small, trouble-free and quick, allowing the electric pulses of the machine's thinking processes to circulate at the rate of one million per second...
...represent numbers shoot through the tubes. When they reach the far end, electric repeaters bat them back again. The numbers echo back & forth in the mercury until they are needed in the machine's computations. Then they can be "brought to mind" in 168 millionths of a second...
Other figures are stored in "Williams memory tubes" (rather like television tubes) in the form of electrified dots on the tubes' faces. These memories can be recalled in twelve millionths of a second...
...radio operator (Dick Wesson)-float weirdly around the inside of the rocket until they put on magnetized boots. Then they can walk on the walls. When a radar antenna jams, they go out on the hull in pressurized monkey suits to make repairs while traveling at seven miles a second. The scientist slips off into space, and his traveling companions stage a fantastic rescue that dramatizes the strange laws of spatial physics. Later, the explorers bound in seven-league strides along the cracked, cratered moonscape where gravity is only one-sixth of what it is in films that take place...