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Practical Physics. When he came home from the 1952 Olympics, champion by a bare three-quarters of an inch over Darrow Hooper, Parry was convinced it was time to perfect his private style. Says he solemnly: "It's an application of physics which says that the longer you apply pressure or force to an inanimate object, the farther it will go. My style is geared to allow me to apply force for the longest time before releasing the shot." Boiled down to its essentials, the O'Brien put begins with the putter at the rear of the ring...
With the aid of Bausch & Lomb tech nicians, Dr. Kapany made up several glass-fiber bundles, each of them containing up to a quarter of a million individual strands a thousandth of an inch in diame ter. So long as he kept the fiber's ends in the same relative position at each end of the bundle, he found that he could pass exact images through the flexible bundles even when they were tied in knots...
...Firebird" ($500), that a child can drive at 5 m.p.h., operating a 1½-gallon pressure water tank that squirts water 25 ft. The Charles Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co. has an electric locomotive, "The Yardbird" ($225), that can transport a young engineer from room to room on an eight-inch gauge track. F.A.O. Schwarz has a wooden stockade ($75) with corner peephole boxes through which young pioneers can see the "attacking enemy...
...whether the bottleneck material could be removed by a simple instrument, and then testing the method on live dogs to see how well they stood the operation. With encouraging answers to both questions, Dr. Bailey got a supply of May curettes: metal tubes, only one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter, nine inches long, with a nick filed halfway through at one end. On Oct. 29 he was ready for his first patient, a man of 51 who had had a severe heart attack in 1953, and now faced lasting invalidism because insufficient blood was reaching his heart muscle...
After months of work on the rug, the Chief discovered that both the strings of the loom and the knots of the yarn must be very loose, with seven strings to the inch. With the tension of the loom eased, everything then unfolded, and he began his excursion into mysticism. When the rug, with its prediction of World War II, was completed Ridd took it to a connoisseur. The expert refused to believe that Ridd had woven it, and from the design of the work judged it to be from the seventh century of Persian rug-making...