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J.P.L. scientists are trying a different technique: they tune in to the signals from the same quasar with two different antennas located many miles apart. Because of their separation, one antenna will pick up the signal slightly ahead of the other. The time difference is infinitesimally small-perhaps only a ten-billionth of a second. Yet it can be measured with the help of atomic clocks and computers. Once the difference in the signal's arrival time is known, the distance between the two antennas as well as their elevation can be calculated with an accuracy of an inch...
...Nottingham coal fields was being waged over miners for whom the strike will be a huge financial loss-"those who live from Friday to Friday, up to their bloody eyeballs in debt," as Joe Whelan puts it. Even the oldest red brick row house in Nottingham has a television antenna on its roof, wall-to-wall carpeting, and an automobile parked out front, all bought on "hire purchase," as the British call the installment plan. "With mortgages, with hire purchase, we can't afford a strike," says Marge Reid, whose husband has been a miner for 25 years. "Nobody...
...other hand, O'Neill's sensitive antenna picked up a slight change in attitude by some Southerners, who had formed a solid bloc against impeachment before the holidays. The main cause apparently was the call for the President's resignation two weeks ago by Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, who is not only one of the most powerful men on the Hill but also the chairman of the committee that is examining Nixon's tax returns. Reports O'Neill: "The Southerners came back wanting to see the evidence. If the evidence comes out that the President...
...Boston Stranger. 1968. The ABC network broadcast of this sensationalistic pseudo-documentary is being blacked-out in Boston by the local affiliate which is showing "The Comic" starring Dick Van Dyke. For real Tony Curtis freaks, channel 9 in Manchester, N.H., is sometimes accessible in Boston with an antenna. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...push-button car windows are here only because consumers want them. They are manufactured and popularized by businessmen concerned with profit, not with providing the public with what it needs and wants. Imagine, for example, the altruistic motives of the man who figured out how to make a car antenna go up and down electronically...