Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...southeastern Oklahoma-a corn, cotton, coal and cattle area bordering on Arkansas and Texas. Albert's father was a shot-firer in a McAlester coal mine, but when Carl, the oldest of five children, was a child, the family moved to a cotton farm near the hamlet of Bug Tussle. * Young Carl went to the two-room Bug Tussle school, then to high school in McAlester (he was the first Bug Tussle pupil ever to progress as far as a high school diploma). He showed an early instinct for politics, at the age of 15 took the stump...
...pounded the kitchen table, a big man with big gestures under a half-acre of black curls. He looked like a big basset hound who had just eaten W. C. Fields, his expression a melange of smugness, mischievousness, humility, humor, guilt, pride, warmth, confidence, perplexity, and orotund, bug-eyed naivete...
...professional arm) at about 3/4 of a gram! The ADC-1 is one indication of how seriously Humphrey is concerned with the problem of record-wear and surface-noise. His care for records doesn't end with use of the world's lowest-pressure commercial cartridge. The familiar Dust Bug is very much present, as it is in just about everybody's system these days. But the real clincher is yet to come...
This stuff is available only by mail from some gentleman whose company makes exotic industrial lubricants (and who is a hi-fi bug on the sly). The turntable itself is a re-worked Rek-O-Kut N33H, the motor-board which Bruce has sawed in half, suspends the motor separately from the table to reduce the rumble even below its already low figure. A special belt had to be used to drive the table, since the one supplied by Rek-O-Kut was not adaptable for such use. A sheet of copper lies under the whole unit, grounded by special...
Herman Kahn's ponderous shocker, On Thermonuclear War, frequently mentions a weapon whose purpose is to end all human life: the Doomsday Machine. Kahn discusses its political uses as calmly as if it were a bug killer, but he gives few technical details. In the latest Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Physicist W. H. Clark spells out some little-known facts about Doomsday Machines-and some of the more refined horrors that nuclear war could bring. Both the U.S. and Russia already can build near-Doomsday bombs, but far more disturbing is the fact that they are sufficiently inexpensive...