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Fibers have enormous advantages over wires. Because they do not "leak" light as copper wires "leak" electricity, fibers should eliminate the cross talk and static that can occur when one telephone wire spills some of its signal into a neighboring line. Measuring as little as one-thousandth of an inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light Conversation | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

The chief playing surface at the Olivier is a 40-ft.-in-diameter revolvable drum. This is a most ingenious toy. It can split into two half-moon elevators, with one half dropping to the basement while the other half comes up with a change of setting within seconds. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A New Treasure on the Thames | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

Both circles must be the same size (about 5 or 6 ft. in diameter), they must be lined up together, and the loops must be on the same axis. And with all that, the job has only begun. Back at the beginning, the skater shifts to the left skate and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: An Arcane Discipline | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Should a mission run into trouble, the shuttle has some unique rescue equipment. Stranded or disabled crewmen will be transferred to a rescue shuttle in pressurized 33-in.-diameter spheres of Neoprene-coated nylon. The transfer will be made either on a clothes-line-and-pulley system or by a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Commuting in Space | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

No. The tree was only inches in diameter and nobody could have hidden behind it. Moreover, the "gunman" disappears in a fraction of a second; the suspected shape is visible on only three frames of the film.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: WHO KILLED J.F.K.? JUST ONE ASSASSIN | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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