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...understood, but it is known that one kind of fish can detect a current of two one-hundred-billionths of an ampere per square centimeter of its body. Its electronic sensing permits it to discriminate between glass rods in its tank that differ in diameter by less than one-tenth of an inch. Study of these talented fish could pay off richly in electronic ideas...
This was the tenth such demonstration by members of the group that helped form Sane in Cambridge last spring. Although frequently accused of favoring lateral disarmament, the groups says it seeks both inspection and controls, as well as halting further bomb testing...
...plays, like oysters, are in season, but there are some still amazingly fresh items from last year's bill of fare with which to contend: Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's skillful exploration of the Sons and Lovers theme, stars Jason Robards Jr.; The Tenth Man mixes modern psychology and ancient rite in Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's tale about a Jewish girl possessed by an evil spirit; The Miracle Worker, with brilliant performances by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, dramatizes the brave, difficult relationship between blind and deaf-mute Helen Keller as a child...
...round and polished as a giant ball bearing, its aluminized Mylar film kept tightly inflated by 20 Ibs. of vaporized anthraquinone, a normally solid organic chemical. When its 100-ft. sphere moved on its orbit 1,000 miles away from the surface of the earth, it covered about one-tenth the angle of the planet Venus at 40 million miles, but it did not show as a disk even in a powerful telescope. The sun reflecting on its spherical surface showed as a mathematical point, as stars...
...always find a piano to play, but we have to come from all over the world to Besancon to find an orchestra to conduct." So said New York's Allen Miller, 27, who with 34 other contestants (all under 30) was taking part in Besancon's tenth annual International Competition for Young Conductors. Every summer musicians and music fans journey to the town in eastern France to look over the new podium talent: a prize or honorable mention in the contest usually brings quick success, or at least a job, in the music world...