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...take one picture every 48 seconds. Each picture was made up of 200 lines-compared with 525 lines on commercial TV screens. And each line was made up of 200 dots. The pictures were held on the tube for 25 seconds while they were scanned by an electron beam that responded to the light intensity of each dot. This was translated into a numerical code with shadings running from zero for white to 63 for deepest black...
...manned by Soviet technicians. The birds themselves-perhaps six to a site-are the same that brought down an American U-2 over Cuba in 1962. They can pluck a plane from the sky at an altitude of 80,000 ft. and fully 35 miles away, riding a radar beam en route and destroying the aircraft with a proximity-fused high explosive or even a nuclear blast. Even after the rockets are mounted, U.S. pilots could take them out by sneaking in beneath the line-of-sight alert radars and slamming the concrete revetments that house the missiles with their...
...detect the existence of the anti-deuteron, Dr. Leon M. Lederman and his group worked with a device called a mass spectrometer at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. Using Brookhaven's 33 billion electron volt synchrotron, they bombarded a target of beryllium with a beam of high-energy protons. This resulted in a debris of. particles that sped through the 300-ft. magnetic field of the spectrometer, where they could be sorted and analyzed. When 16 giant, 20-ton magnets were set to pass positively charged particles, the apparatus made careful readings of the flight path, momentum...
...feel they are already paying an exorbitant amount for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. landlines that now link them to their affiliated stations in the U.S. So ABC Boss Leonard Goldenson has proposed a solution: a domestic version of the Early Bird, which would hover over the U.S., could beam its signals directly to network stations, thus making an end run around the A.T. & T. facilities...
...whole, though, Italy is a tourist's legal paradise. Customs officials are inclined to overlook illegal liquor and cigarettes (more than two botties or two cartons); a 90-day stay can be extended in minutes; an expired passport gets a 48-hour grace period; traffic cops beam at addled tourists and dole out multilingual warning notes rather than parking tickets. Even disorderly tourists get breaks unknown to disorderly natives, and a robbed tourist is likely to get faster police aid in Italy than in almost any other country...