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...publicity campaign for black-and-white television, and many a big manufacturer joined the fight by refusing to start producing adapters, converters, and color-TV sets. AS a result, CBS will have to rely on such small manufacturers an Celomat and Muntz to supply most of the early receiving apparatus...
...game can be played by candlelight in an empty coal cellar, a padded cell, or other convenient room, and the apparatus can easily be improvised. At the outset, whoever can place the largest number of square pegs in round holes becomes the "Government." Then cards are dealt around. Each player in turn presents his card, which is marked "Coal," "Gas," "Transport," "Steel," or the name of some other industry. Then the "Government" player presents his trump card, "Nationalisation," and takes his opponents' cards, handing them scraps of paper of dubious value in return...
Rules have already been established in the Graduate Center, similar to those in the Houses, concerning extra charges for electrical apparatus...
...cold, driving rain hampered the practice, but Lamar sent the large squad through intensive drills on the Crowther apparatus and over the rope maze...
...University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory had worked on the problem. He devised a powerful spectrograph, built around a special Schmidt camera, which gathers light from a large area of the sky. Last month, when the sun was nicely spotted in the right places, he got his apparatus ready and pointed it in the direction from which he expected the hydrogen particles to come. Nicely on schedule, the night sky lit up with an "extreme aurora...