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...view a specimen in the instrument, Miss Swaffield places it on the microscope stage and presses a button. A minute later she sees a full-color view of the object as it would look if her eyes were tuned in for the short ultraviolet rays...
...dictation device for office use. Instead of an individual machine that must be moved from office to office, the "PhonAudograph" is a central recording device connected through individual private wires to as many offices as need the service. The user merely picks up his special telephone, presses one button when talking, another when he wants a playback. For a correction, he presses a third button; a fourth button ends the transcription...
Everytime someone piles up at one of these corners, a loud cry goes up for all sorts of exotic safety devices. Cambridge has already installed a traffic signal, but aside from providing sport for those who push the red-orange button, then floc, it has served only to clog traffic during rush hours. And despite the light, drivers still bear north when the road goes west, and they still under-estimate the angle of the turn into Plympton Street...
Ushers for the party include the following College men: Terrance J. Barry '52, George S. Abrams '54, Richard T. Button '52, Edward O. Brown '52, Paul R. McHugh '52, Dudley S. Richards '54, William E. R. LaFarge '54, Charles C. Abels '52, Brian F. Reynolds '54, and Paul W. Dillingham...
Harvard's two figure-skaters received special awards this year, the only two presented. Richard T. Button '52 of Englewood, N. J., and Lowell House, Olympic Champion, World Champion, and U. S. Champion figure-skater, and Dudley S. Richards '54 of Pawtucket, R. I., and Lowell House both were awarded special letters. Button received a special award for his skating last year, also...