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Best of all were the lunch-hour throngs in midtown Manhattan. Swinging onto Fifth Avenue, Humphrey and Kennedy were stalled for 15 minutes by a tumultuous turnout rivaling the one that greeted John Kennedy in 1960. It took 80 minutes to inch 25 blocks to the Seagram Building, where Hubert lunched with $ 1,000-a-year Democratic contributors at the elegant Four Seasons restaurant. Hubert just couldn't resist slowing things down even more by halting the motorcade several times to harangue the crowds through a portable loudspeaker. "This is perfect Democratic weather," he jubilated. "The sun is high...
...than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick as a pencil lead, emitted ultrasound pulses and picked up the echoes that came back from objects in their path. The time difference between pulse and echo, shown as a peak on a tiny oscilloscope (like a one-inch TV tube) held in an assistant surgeon's hand, indicated the distance of the probe's end from the object in Jimmy...
...most of the eyeball and searched. When the oscilloscope showed that he was within a millimeter of the foreign body, Dr. Bronson closed the minuscule forceps attached to the probe. His aim was perfect. The forceps grasped the object, and Dr. Bronson carefully extracted a sliver of brass, ¼-inch long and 3/16-inch wide. Though the whole operation on Jimmy's eye took an hour and a half, the actual location of the sliver and its removal took only 39 seconds...
From Round to Square. RCA, which until last year was the only U.S. producer of the 21-inch color tube, has announced an $8,000,000 expansion program for its color-tube facilities. Admiral, which complains about the price of the RCA tubes it buys for its sets, will become the sixth U.S. maker to manufacture its own color tubes when its new $12 million factory is finished. National Video, the supplier of Motorola's 23-inch color tubes, is spending $4,000,000 to double its capacity. Sylvania has developed a new color tube with a rare earth...
Hartford, Connecticut gave President Johnson a tumultuous welcome as throngs defined almost every inch of his route. A White House staff member commented that he had "not seen any thing like this since Berlin...