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...Silver Beatles and off to Hamburg for their first engagement out of Great Britain; their weekly take was an unimpressive $20 each. Best earned his passage with the suggestion that the "Silver" be dropped, because "it sounds a bit corny."*Best also contributed to the essential trip-hammering back-up for the Beatle beat; until his arrival, they were all guitars. A year later, Brian Epstein came aboard as the Beatles' manager and added the final refinements. Their hair, shorter than now, was to be kept kempter. "Out," recalls Best, "went our leather jackets. In came mohair suits...
...volt system is one of the three types of back-up sources in use at Harvard. Its reserve power comes from a cable which reaches beyond the College's two substations and connects with the main current line from the Cambridge Power and Light Company, where Harvard buys all its electricity. Murphy said the system is a recent innovation which, at this time, services only a section of the University. The other two emergency sources are wet and dry-cell batteries...
...batteries are supposed to be outdated; but, Murphy said, they were the sole source of power during the blackout. When Cambridge Power and Light failed, the 550-volt back-up faltered also...
...them, but it will be a good exercise for them, and they'll be there if you need them." While they talked, though, the oxygen pressure dropped still lower−to 95 Ibs. If it fell to 20 Ibs., the spacecraft would have to switch to its back-up batteries, which produce just enough power to handle an orbit and a half, plus re-entry and recovery time...
...Crimson has any weakness other than in the vault, it may be in the middle distance runs, the 600 and the 1000. Keith Chiappa, soccer and cross-country star during the fall, will be the top performer in both events, with untested sophomores forming the main back-up strength...