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Mitchell had blown a chance to win in regulation when he missed an 18-inch putt on the 17th hole. He finished the 72 holes in a tie with the more renowned Nicklaus...
...Buchanan's two automatic five-inch guns, with a maximum range of twelve miles, is trained to starboard. A voice rasps over the ship's loudspeaker: "Stand by. Mount 52. Two salvos." Five seconds later, the gun shreds the night. A pale orange flame shoots from the muzzle, and a 70-lb. shell whistles through the air en route to a target more than three miles inland from the Vietnamese coastline...
...could well rise as much as it did last year (3.4%); more important, nonfood commodities (the area covered by Phase II controls) could well rise 3%. On top of the continuing rises expected for utility rates and interest rates, the prices of manufactured goods are now expected to inch up later this year. At a meeting this week, the Price Commission will examine several ideas to strengthen controls...
...does RCA get four electronic signals from two walls in a groove only 21 thousandths of an inch wide? Essentially by electronically scrambling the sounds picked up from four separate microphones, imprinting them on the groove walls, then separating them precisely into four signals that are fed into four speakers. Heard at RCA'S Manhattan studios, the new disk plays only 20 minutes (the company hopes to have it up to the standard 30 before long), but its output is vibrant, clear, well-defined, surprisingly flexible...
These remarkable new optoelectrical components are called light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. Often only 1/32 of an inch wide, they have advantages that many of the older optical displays lacked: a longer lifetime (up to 100 years in the opinion of some scientists), very low power consumption (much less than that needed even by a tiny flashlight bulb) and, like the transistor, a high resistance to shock and other abusive treatment. Most important of all, they can be easily assembled into miniature electronic displays that form numbers in a flash...