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...tests--conducted at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, where Rubbia is researching for the summer--consist of aiming a beam of protons accelerated to an energy of 270 billion volts around a four-mile ring and into beam of anti-protons flying in the opposite direction with the same energy...
...esoteric yet immensely important national debate over how to avoid nuclear war has suddenly been focused like a laser beam on one issue: Should the U.S. develop and deploy a space-based system for defending itself against Soviet missiles so as to deter Moscow from ever contemplating such an attack...
...after moving into calculators and copiers in the 1960s, Canon applied its electronics know-how to cameras and devised the breakthrough AE-1. The company followed up in 1979 with the Sure Shot, a highly popular $100 pocket camera that automatically focuses itself by using an infra-red beam to measure the distance to the subject. Then in 1982 came the $60 Snappy 20, an easy-to-load 35-mm model designed to compete with Kodak's Instamatics...
...holding a contest among its four salesmen: Roma (Joe Mantegna), the slick master of sympathetic patter; Aaronow (Mike Nussbaum), an aging nebbish trudging on the treadmill of anxiety; Moss (James Tolkan), bullet-headed and bull-tempered; and Levene (Robert Prosky), a salesman on a long losing streak, who can beam like a bishop at good news and just as quickly turn to wheedling for his job. Running herd on these macho individualists is the consummate organization man, Williamson (J.T. Walsh). What is this, an MTM sitcom gone bilious? No, more like The Front Page staged in the lower depths...
Junior Sally Fagerson placed third on the uneven parallel bars for Harvard, while freshman Lisa Blair and sophomore Lisa Schneider added scores on the floor exercises and beam event...