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...establish the reciprocal nature of every cold war move, Waskow cited the Soviet Sputnik as an, event that forced the U.S. to divert funds and energy from strictly military research to space projects. He suggested that a billion dollars worth of American aid to India would guarantee a mirror-response because the Russians are already committed to competing for influence there...
...that elected Lieutenant Governor John Swainson, 36, as his successor. For weeks Staebler has been hunting for a strong Democratic candidate to run for Michigan's newly created at-large congressional seat. Last week he found his man-by the simple process of looking in his own mirror...
...shrunk to the size of a small flashlight. But for the person who straps it on his head, the Hughes Aircraft Company's "Electrocular" does a giant-sized job: it is as efficient as a pair of eyes in the back of the skull. A small, semi-transparent mirror projects in front of the wearer's right eye, reflecting whatever picture the TV tube presents. So close to the eye is the image that it looms large and clear, but Hughes engineers insist that a user quickly learns to look right through the picture when he wants...
...picture on its small-mirror screen will not ordinarily come from a TV studio but from a closed-circuit TV camera that may be peering at something near by, around the corner, or miles away. The captain of an aircraft carrier, for instance, could walk the bridge of his ship while simultaneously watching by Electrocular a below-decks chart recording the progress of a distant air battle...
...most caustically anti-administration campus newspaper in the country. "It's hard not to censor them," sighs Sachar. "But we don't want to run the risk of closing their minds. We practice an affectionate kind of fratricide." What Brandeis has in fact produced is a mirror of the liberal, learned, humane tone of Justice Brandeis himself. For just this reason, it is likely to go on being a kettle of highly individualistic fish. Says Sachar: "You've heard about the two castaway Jews on a desert island? When they're rescued, they're asked...