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Permanent magnets seemed permanently limited until Westinghouse Engineer Ray Radus taught them a new trick. Radus began by building an unusually strong magnet, a slice of ceramic material sandwiched between flat plates of soft steel. With the steel focusing its lines of magnetic force in much the same manner that a small lens strengthens a spotlight beam, one of Radus' ceramic sandwiches only an inch square can exert a pull of some 30 lbs. The problem-to make it let go. If a few turns of wire are wrapped around the sandwich, and a small current is sent through...
...avoiding punishment. He knows when to press forward, when to hang back, whom to be near, whom to avoid. In a complex series of maneuvers, any one of which could land him in the cell, he wangles an extra bowl of soup, some tobacco, and-his triumph-a slice of sausage, which he exultantly swallows in bed: "the brief moment for which a prisoner lives." In a gruesome way, the novel has a happy ending, for Shukhov goes to sleep quite pleased with his day's adventures...
Term of Trial is the latest in the "slice of treacle" series of British movies: each drips with middle-class realism, each shows the struggles of a Prometheus figure against his sordid environment. Sir Laurence Olivier and High Griffith guarantee some high points in acting. But it is difficult to see why the Venice Film Festival awarded a prize to director and author Peter Glenville; for the ultimate in realism, toward which Glenville strives, is also the ultimate dramatic defect-dullness...
...struggling Erie-Lackawanna Railroad consolidated facilities to slice costs last year by $6,300,000. Result: it reduced its deficit by $10 million...
...control. It can turn up to 100,000 revolutions per minute and come to a dead stop in a fraction of a second. Its carbide burs will drill a neat hole or, if moved sideways, work like a power saw. The burs develop no heat as they drill or slice swiftly through bone...