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William Larsen is acceptable as the paranoid and pompous Reverend Samuel Parris, who won't give an inch about anything: "I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College." Actually, Miller's scholarship slipped here, for Parris did not hold a Harvard degree. The late historian Samuel Eliot Morison, who wrote book after book on Harvard's first 300 years, stated that Parris may perhaps have attended the College for a time around 1672-74, but was not a graduate. Harvard was at times lax in its early attendance-keeping...
Varian Associates of Palo Alto has also come up with an idea to tap the sun as a source of power. The firm has developed a gallium arsenide solar converter only one-third of an inch in diameter that can produce 10 watts of electricity from the sunlight reflected from a concentrating mirror...
Washington has since changed that view, partly because he has somewhat reformed his soldiery. The men have come to revere him. For one thing, he looks every inch a general. A big man, heavily muscled (6 feet 2 inches, 200 pounds), he has a strong, square face lightly marked by small pox. At 44, he is in perfect condition but for several missing teeth. He dresses in a fine uniform of dark blue faced with buff, set off by brass buttons. He is a great horseman -some say the best in Virginia...
...steam engine. Although there are a number of these devices in Europe, only one was ever shipped to America, to pump out a copper mine in New Jersey, and it was destroyed by fire in 1773. Colles decided, however, to build one of his own, and the 18-inch cylinder was cast in New York last year. (Said the New York Gazetteer: "The first performance of the kind ever attempted in America and allowed by the judges to be extremely well executed.") This spring Colles was finally ready to test his creation, and when he demonstrated that it could pump...
...Researcher Walsh, after exploring how an 18-inch ray transmits its shock through water, also tried to find out how often the fish can perform this feat. By plunging a captive ray rapidly up and down in a trough of water, he discovered that it could give off about 100 shocks during 20 plunges in the course of three minutes...