Word: midgets
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...force. Says Drew: "We would not move in with our lights and cameras and convert a worker's shack into a television studio. That way you simply don't get a feeling of reality." Using natural lighting, a stripped-down 16-mm. camera and, if necessary, a midget recording machine, Drew's reporting teams do their work unobtrusively, spend as long as a week befriending a family till they are willing to talk freely...
Tiros II has two cameras. Both are water-glass size, containing midget tubes that impress electronic photographs on magnetic tape. The pictures are sent down to earth on command from stations in California and New Jersey...
...live again when life itself was done and over with. Powell has not yet created one of the mountains of literature, but his molehills, for those with the leisure to watch, can be quite as interesting as the moles are when they are seen heaving up their moving midget tumuli under the surface of an English lawn...
...midget gas turbine engine for cars. Developed by the Williams Research Corp., the engine weighs only 50 Ibs., is a mere 10 in. thick and 19 in. long, yet produces 75 h.p. It will be field tested in Jeeps next month by the Army...
...training car for Grand Prix drivers. Appalled by the dearth of first-class Italian drivers, Count Giovanni Lurani, an oldtime competitor himself, got together with drivers and automakers to devise a small sandlot version of the bellowing, big-engined (2,500 cc.) Ferraris and Maseratis-just as the familiar midget racers are pocket-sized editions of the Indianapolis "big cars." To make it safe, the Formula Junior got its dinky engine. To make it cheap, the class was restricted to using parts from standard touring sports cars. But while the Formula Junior is indeed cheaper...