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...method is straightforward enough, but interferometers attached to conventional telescopes are extremely difficult to use; they can measure only the nearest and biggest stars - red giants such as Betelgeuse, which has 290 times the diameter of the sun. To measure smaller or more distant stars, the beam-collecting mirrors must be much farther apart than is possible with a single optical telescope...
Obviously, the signal demanded an answer, and the thoughtful Cygnians labored mightily over their reply. They hoped that earthmen would understand it, since they were sending it back by laser beam. But they were wrong...
Almost like a game of cards in which everyone gets his chance, the national press periodically throws its deceptive spotlight on another of the so-called Republican compromise candidates for President: first, Michigan's George Romney; then reliable standby Dick Nixon; and recently Pennsylvania's Bill Scranton. The beam has now settled on Henry Cabot Lodge, ambassador to Vietnam...
...Wilhelm Boger, 57, onetime chief of the Auschwitz intelligence system, boasted that the place had the lowest escape rate of any Nazi concentration camp. Boger was the inventor of a torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick placed against...
...beauty parlors, saving their users millions of dollars and hundreds of man-hours. They range from giants that can photograph full-scale engineering layouts to high-speed models with liquid shutters that can take pictures at the rate of 100 million a second and stop a light beam in midair. In only five years the sales of cameras and supplies to industry and government have jumped from $360 million to $630 million, almost half the entire business of the $1.4 billion photographic industry...