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...also the year of 3-D, Cinema-Scope, Cinerama, big screen, stereophonic sound and other technical tricks designed to make Marilyn Monroe look 64 feet long (couchant) and intended to lure back, by sheer gigantism, the public that had been lost to 17-inch TV screens. This too was sometimes called progress...
...coaches in the lobby of Seattle's Olympic Hotel. Turning down "dozens" of offers. Halbrook chose to go to college in his home state. As an Oregon State freshman-by then 7 ft. 2 in.-Halbrook scored a record 450 points. As a sophomore, and grown one more inch, 20-year-old Swede Halbrook has averaged 25.2 points a game. Oregonians happily regard him as still just a growing...
Coach Floyd Wilson will start his usual lineup. Captain Bill Dolvon, high scorer, and Lou Lowenfels, will open at the guard spots. Ike Canty, 6-foot 4-inch center, will continue at center, and Bob Hurley and Rod Long should start at forwards...
...reprieve is promised by the local weather bureau from the fierce northeast storm which lashed the Boston area yesterday with high winds and more than an inch and a half of rain...
...hair-thin streams of a liquid indium salt are squirted at opposite sides of a tiny slab of germanium. The streams carry an electric current, and their electrified liquid slowly dissolves the germanium. When they have almost drilled through the slab, leaving only a few ten-thousandths of an inch, the current is quickly reversed. The drilling stops, and the reversed current deposits metallic indium on both sides of the thin germanium wafer. The result is a transistor with two indium electrodes to which wires can be attached...