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...system, the original material would be commercially transferred onto a new type of film. Home viewers would then insert cartridges of the film in a breadbox-size playback unit, which would send audio-visual signals into the antenna terminals of the TV set. A seven-inch cartridge, resembling a discus, could play up to 30 minutes in color, an hour in black and white. Now called Electronic Video Recording (EVR), the system may reach the U.S. market...
Interpol has just formally opened its new eight-story HQ in the fashionable Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud. Equipped with a 50-ft. rooftop antenna, the streamlined building contains a massive communications center linking member countries by radio, Telex and Teletype. Key to this network, which handled 118,000 messages last year, are Interpol's branch offices, called National Central Bureaus. The bureaus are manned by local police whose sole job is trading Interpol information with other bureaus and with Saint-Cloud. One payoff for Americans: interdiction of the narcotics pipeline that runs from Turkish farmers to French labs...
...third pass, the Besslednyi scraped sides with the U.S. destroyer Walker, losing a motor launch and tearing a whip antenna off the Walker. Then it withdrew. Next day DD025, a Russian destroyer of the heavy Krupny class, armed with two missile launchers, continued the contest of nerves. Again, Walker was one of two ships ordered to force it away. This time the Russian ship swerved directly across the Walker's bow. The two ships brushed momentarily together, and the Walker disengaged with a six-inch hole in its hull above the waterline...
...years ago, Edwin Turner, a civilian electrical engineer in the Air Force Avionics Laboratory at Dayton's Wright-Patterson A.F.B., became convinced that a large antenna could be duplicated electronically by a smaller device. The solution, he felt intuitively, was a miniature antenna with an active, built-in transistor circuit. Unable to perfect the mini-antenna himself, he turned to other electronics experts for help but was told repeatedly that his concept was not feasible. To work efficiently, they said, an antenna had to be physically at least one-quarter as long as the wave length of its design...
...whose research is partially financed by the U.S. Air Force. Meinke immediately grasped Turner's concept, volunteered to work on it, and was awarded an Air Force contract. Now, after four years of mathematical analysis and laboratory work, he has finally built several prototype models of the mini-antennas that Turner visualized. The simplest of Meinke's devices, which the Air Force calls Subminiature Integrated Antennas (SIA), consists of three stubby, pencil-sized arms, each at tached to one of the three terminals of a transistor. Combined with the electrical properties of capacitance, inductance and resistance...