Word: beaming
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...concise and to the point. Only thing is: What point? Are the Busicks alerting a bookie to their late-starting favorites at Pimlico? Notifying fellow CIA agents of the terms of a prisoner-exchange operation? Not at all. The message appeared in the monthly publication of the National Jim Beam Bottle and Specialties Club; the Bluejay is a ceramic decanter, as is the St. Louis Arch, and the Busicks themselves are two of the estimated 50,000 Americans currently engaged in what is perhaps the country's fastest-growing hobby-bottle collecting...
Hapless Gamblers. Not filled bottles, but empties. The fancy packaging (animal, bird and political figurines), initiated in the mid-'50s by the James B. Beam Distilling Co. as a spur to liquor sales, boosted sales all right, but not just by drinkers. The bottles turned out to be every bit as intoxicating, so much so that a company called Grenadier is now in business primarily to serve "the Connoisseur Collector with the finest examples of porcelain soldier figurines [bottles] available anywhere in the U.S." Moreover, unlike their contents, the bottles have a long-term value: Jim Beam...
There are more laser-experiment sites than those listed by the FAA. Under the U.S. Air Force's so-called Eighth Card program, centered at Kirtland Air Force Base (N. Mex.), researchers are exploring the use of even stronger laser beams as military weaponry. The airspace over bases housing such experiments is automatically out of bounds to civilian craft. One goal of the program: the development of a laser that could destroy incoming enemy missiles. Traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), a laser beam could, in theory, intercept a 17,000-m.p.h. ICBM...
...began to expand in earnest, Crum's PX monopolies did too. Along with his contracts for coin-operated amusements, he wangled the exclusive distributorship for Mandarin Textiles' Dynasty fashions in PXs and NCO clubs. He became a representative for the James B. Beam Distilling Co. of Chicago and the Carling Brewing Co. of Cleveland. He also kept up his lucrative side trade in such goods as freezers and air conditioners, many of which were conveniently-and illegally -stored on a base under the eye of his good friend, General Cole, the Senators were told...
...hind in a variety of fields. Japan and Europe are far ahead in establishing fast, new train networks and Mexico City has completed a subway system "that is both a great feat of engineering and a work of art." In high-energy physics, Italian scientists using a colliding-beam electron accelerator have come upon "what may be a new phenomenon in the creation of matter from energy, which seems to go beyond present physical theory." France, the Soviet Union and Switzerland are all at work testing the discovery on similar accelerators, but the U.S. has only one such machine...