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This radiation, and the current that it generates, is extraordinarily "stable." That is, its frequency (of approximately 1,420,405,000 cycles per second) is expected to vary less than that of any other kind of radiation. Like all regular wave motion, it can be used to keep time. The Harvard physicists hope their hydrogen clock will measure small intervals of time with 100,000 times the accuracy that is presently possible...
...tines vibrate, the magnets poke into tiny coils, generating a very small pulse of electric current that goes to a transistor and triggers it so as to permit a somewhat larger current to flow through the coils from a battery. The energized coils react with the magnets and keep the fork vibrating at a steady 360 cycles per second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this wheel moves the hands...
...recent history, where fear of inflation has helped send stocks up since they are considered one of the best hedges against it. But brokers had an answer to this paradox; they argued that inflation sends the market up only when there is a prospect that earnings and dividends will keep pace with inflation and not be squeezed by rising costs, as they have been for many corporations...
...keep troops and bases on foreign soil, the U.S. will spend $3 billion this year, most of it abroad. Another $1.4 billion will be disbursed for military aid programs, of which about $300 million will be spent outside the U.S. Of the $867 million that will be spent on economic aid by the International Cooperation Administration, more than half will be spent abroad. To make the balance of payments even more lopsided, foreign investments in the U.S., which usually run at a rate of about $500 million a year, have fallen to almost zero. What can the U.S. do, without...
...share more in the cost of the free world's defense against Communism, and shoulder a bigger part of the burden of aiding underdeveloped countries. West Germany, which is running a trade surplus of about $100 million monthly, pays not a cent of the $684 million required to keep U.S. troops on its soil, currently sends out only a trickle in foreign aid. It is running at the rate of $100 million this year, totaled only $274 million in the past six years. Last week Germany moved to substantially step up its aid. France, spending heavily in Algeria, feels...