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...r.p.m. long-playing record; in an automobile accident; in Westchester County, N.Y. President of CBS Laboratories for 17 years, Goldmark also developed the video cassette for recording TV images on tape, and the so-called rotating-disk system for color TV. While the disk device failed by a whisker to win F.C.C. approval as the standard U.S. TV system, it was later used to send the first color images from the moon. Said Goldmark, who preferred practical applications to ivory-tower theorizing: "An inventive idea without development is quite useless...
Scheduled airline service between the U.S. and Britain came within a whisker of stopping last week. But the planes kept flying because U.S. and British negotiators came up with a new pact governing air traffic between their countries-at 5:10 a.m. Wednesday, London time, ten minutes after the Bermuda Agreement of 1946 had expired. The new agreement, informally called Bermuda II, on balance seems to give the most benefits to British airlines, which get more new routes between the two countries and a chance for a greater share of transatlantic revenues...
...Myers and Melchoir write in Science, after only three days of THP treatment the teetotaling rats began switching to the sauce. Indeed, after a while the rodents became so addicted that they exhibited all the symptoms of alcoholism, including a rodent version of delirium tremens (DTs) characterized by whisker-twitching, jerking movements and "wet-dog" shakes...
Harvard drew LSU in Friday's first round and came within a whisker of shaving the nationally ranked Tigers. The Crimson smashed to a 4-0 lead in the singles but folded in the number five and six matches, and then lost all three doubles matches to their tourney-experienced opponents...
...fault line separating the haves and havenots. The affluent, the well-educated, the suburbanites largely went for Ford; the socially and economically disadvantaged for Carter. Thus Carter is in a position similar to that of John Kennedy in 1960 and of Richard Nixon in 1968-a winner by a whisker who must still create a national following and prove himself to a truly broad constituency...