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...cycles per second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this wheel moves the hands of the watch through a conventional gear train. Bulova guarantees that its electronic watch, which it calls the Accutron. will not gain or lose more than one minute per month. Price of present-model watches...
...formal speeches, Kennedy sometimes raced too briskly to the point; often he was guilty of oversimplification. But in happier moments (notably in press conferences and informal question-and-answer sessions), he impressed the experts with his detailed knowledge, eloquence and deft uptake. As the campaign surged into high gear, Kennedy left a jet stream of issues behind him (see box), along with the jagged seismograph of his public image. Getting into the swing of it, he proved that he can be as tough, skillful and attractive as any other candidate currently on the stump-and worthy of Dick Nixon...
When the competition began, Hary showed up carrying a knapsack loaded with his gear, pointedly ignored his rivals clustered on a bench. Then he set to work. He lowered the Olympic record by .1 sec., to 10.2. in an early heat, won the semifinals in 10.3. In the finals, after making two false starts with the rest of the field, Hary poised on his blocks as steady as a carrier plane braced on its catapult. The six men came off the mark together, but within two strides Hary had accelerated to a half-meter lead. By the 50-meter mark...
...miles west of Albuquerque, a group of 19 small, coop-like structures covers a grassy, mile-wide plain. Inside each coop are four disks, each one meter across and wrapped in black plastic. From the disks, cables run to a central building crammed with oscilloscopes and other delicate gear. Last week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, institutional proprietor of all this apparatus, announced that it has detected a cosmic ray (high-speed particle) that came to the earth from a foreign galaxy millions of light years away in the far depths of space. This was eye-opening scientific news...
...MESSENGER BOY. I AM A YOUNG NEWSPAPER REPORTER. YOU HAVE TO GIVE A FIRST INTERVIEW TO SOMEBODY. WHY DON'T YOU GIVE IT TO ME? IT WILL START ME ON MY CAREER. Vastly amused, Debs granted the interview, and Lasker's career moved into high gear. At 18, he went to Chicago to work for $10 a week as an ad salesman for Lord & Thomas. At 35, he owned L. & T. and several million dollars to boot...