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...surprised that you too should become confused, considering the subject with which you arc dealing, but knowing the pride of the Charlotte people I am certain they will wax quite indignant over this lack of familiarity with their prize city...
...itself, affecting other molecules. If these molecules twitched in response to the charge, their movements would generate a current affecting still other molecules. Thus, like a row of falling dominoes, the molecules in the nerve tissue might electrically hand on an impulse from beginning to end of the nerve arc. "Clarification of these effects removes an important barrier to the . . . intelligent treatment of nervous disorders...
...material to be centrifuged is placed in a tiny windowed cell in the rim of the disk. What goes on in the cell while the machine is spinning can be seen by stroboscopic light-extremely rapid, brief flashes from a mercury vapor arc. The flashes are timed to illuminate the cell at precisely the same point of every revolution and thus the cell appears motionless. A Zeiss camera nine feet long is trained on it to take pictures...
...that no one much cares that her acting is superficial, operatic, and unconvincing. She plays the role of the aristocratic Rosita Castro, a wisp of a girl who, under the pseudonym of Don Carlos, leads the vigilantes in their fight against the land-stealing Yankee foreigners. Like Joan of Arc, this murder-minded maiden defends her countrymen from their enemies. This is a very thrilling Wild West, made especially for grownups...
Since the law on over-the-counter markets is as vague as it is broad, SEC will probably ask Congress for specific authority to require some form of registration for at least the larger of the thousands of unlisted corporations whose securities arc traded telephonically. Only in that way will the same corporate publicity be obtained for unlisted securities as for listed. Even with clarifying amendments, over-the-counter regulation will be on less solid constitutional foundations than stock exchange control. Said Chairman Landis last week: "We expect to be in the courts any minute on this phase...