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There is a widespread canard that 1963's teen-agers are brighter, quicker, and of higher intellectual potential attainment than any previous generation. Ghoulardi has knocked that theory into a cocked hat. Or rather into a football helmet with faucets sticking out of it. He wears...
...Romney's voice choked as he finished his speech: "As far as I'm concerned, I have answered those two questions, and I am indifferent to the personal political consequences involved." The lawmakers stood and cheered-making the outlook for both Michigan and George Romney a little brighter for the moment. Said Romney, returning to the microphone: "I know this has been dry, but I am heartened by your reaction...
...from a photosensitive layer of cesium and antimony. The free electrons are whisked to the opposite end of the tube by powerful electrostatic charges and they hit the far wall with considerable energy. The collisions build a picture on a phosphorescent screen, a picture that is 1,000 times brighter than the original. Picked up by a TV camera and projected on a TV picture tube, the scene can be brightened still more...
...world of low, low temperatures. By slowing the movement of electrons and thus reducing resistance to electricity to almost nothing, the extreme cold of liquid nitrogen, for example, gives an electric magnet four times or more the usual pull and makes a light bulb shine 20 times brighter. Linde has also found that whole blood and body tissues can be preserved indefinitely when frozen with nitrogen...
...Harvard and Stanford offered Boring jobs. Stanford promised a higher salary and a higher position. Boring chose Harvard. He began his career with a six-week hospitalization from an auto accident. He comments: "I have no proof that the accident did not make me brighter. Medical science lacks controls...