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...concentrated on showy prestige projects, such as a sports stadium (still unfinished after three years), a vast brick factory, a printing plant capable of producing 40,000 newspapers an hour, though at most one in ten Guineans can read. Experts discovered that a Russian-built radio station, designed to beam the Voice of Toure the length of Africa, had been sited on an iron lode that badly interferes with transmission...
...Jersey advertising salesman, Hayden caught his first glimpse of the sea in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where his mother and stepfather had fled a jump ahead of the creditors. Before long he was slipping down to the Gloucester and Boston docks to beg a berth on the beam trawlers. By the time he got his skipper's papers, he was something of a local hero (LOCAL SAILOR LIKE MOVIE IDOL headlined the Boston Post). A well-meaning friend sent a letter to a Hollywood agent: "There's a young fellow back here named Hayden. He is twenty-four years...
...York City Superintendent Calvin Gross [Nov. 15] appears to be a laser beam cutting into the Stygian morass called American education. If this is really true, I may be coaxed into returning to the classroom firing line as a teacher...
...Pulsed Beam. Working in an all but echoless 10-ft. by 13-ft. room lined with sound-absorbing wedges of glass fiber, Lockheed's scientists have set up a sort of searchlight with a sound generator in its throat. The researcher sits in a chair, covers his eyes with a blindfold and presses a button with his right hand. Out of the searchlight comes a beam of noise, 50 pulses per second, which sounds like a distant chorus of crickets and spring peepers. The mixed frequencies are higher than human ears normally hear, but the researchers have found that...
...left hand the blindfolded subject holds a tiller by which he can swing the sound beam, searching for test objects-small wires, lengths of pipe, pieces of cloth-hung at random from the chamber's roof. When the beam hits a target, an echo comes back, and from the character of that echo an experienced listener can tell an amazing amount about the target...