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...PALEVSKY, 48, Los Angeles, founder of Scientific Data Systems, largest single stockholder in Xerox, interests in films (Marjoe) and publishing, chairman of Straight Arrow Publishers (Rolling Stone). Gifts: McGovern, $126,852; McCloskey, $9,825. Loans: McGovern...
Like veterans of World War II, some enthusiasts advertise their discharge from the reproductive ranks by proudly wearing special vasectomy pins in their lapels. The pins consist of a circle with an arrow pointing up and away, the universal symbol for the male; the circle, like the vas, is severed...
THEY marched out of those ads that Henry Ford runs for his cars. They came from the families that Polaroid tells about at Christmas time, a little overweight and a little overhappy. They arrived in Hart, Schaffner & Marx, with burnt orange by Arrow. Their jaws seemed firmer, teeth bigger and whiter, complexions clearer, shoulders wider, backs straighter than the Democrats', and they had handshakes likes vises. Wandering across the convention floor was like strolling down Main Street with some side excursions up its suburban companion, Elm Street. There was the clean fragrance of Mennen's Skin Bracer and the soft...
Proverbial Arrow. The very nature of laser light gives it a potential for destruction. Unlike ordinary light, which consists of a chaotic jumble of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies, laser beams are composed of light waves of only a single frequency. These waves are not only parallel but are also in phase: their crests and troughs coincide and reinforce each other, making it possible to produce an extremely intense and concentrated beam. In practice, however, lasers have drawbacks. The beams collide with molecules in the atmosphere and weaken over long distances; like sunlight, they may be blocked by clouds...
...laser give military strategists powerful incentives to overcome these difficulties. Ordinary bullets and missiles follow arcing trajectories that must be carefully calculated in advance; laser beams are virtually unaffected by the pull of the earth's gravity or by winds, and fly as straight as the proverbial arrow. Traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), they reach their targets literally in a flash; even a computer-controlled ICBM could not maneuver fast enough to get out of their path...