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With the pinball vacationist has departed the simple, wide open hundred dollar machine; the New Look in pinball apparatus is a $400, 50 magnet, hundred relay contraption that can take a lusty belt in the back. In the old days there were scarcely more than ten bumpers on the whole playboard, perhaps one or two runways, and no bonuses. Total score and tripping every bumper were the only ways to rack up free games; but the new devices coming out of Chicago, the pinball capital of the world, contain never fewer than a dozen bumpers, a horde of runways...
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Vapor Blends. Human beings are harder to test. Their smelling apparatus is deeply buried in the upper nasal passages, where it cannot be blocked off from the vapors by heat-transparent barriers. Beck & Miles hope to lick this problem somehow when they get an infra-red spectrometer for studying the wavelength of fragrances...
...crash near Port Deposit, Md.). What caused the baggage fire was a question which might never be answered. All the baggage of Flight 608 was loaded into belly cargo pits through which passed no gasoline lines or electric wires. The pits carried automatic smoke indicators and extinguishing apparatus. It seemed unlikely that matches, cigarette lighters or other ordinary objects in the passengers' luggage could have set the ship afire...
Hopeful Future. "The heart of the fast reactor," the report explains, "is a small vessel"; but apparently the vessel must be surrounded by a good deal of auxiliary apparatus. "Since the heat is generated in a relatively small region, special cooling provisions are required to prevent overheating of the center of the reactor...