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...dark when the raiding party reached the poor Moscow neighborhood where the informer had said there was underground activity. Before the raiders, a sagging frame house stood dark and deserted in the snow, waiting for the wreckers. In the light of a feeble bulb at the entrance, two women were sawing wood. A large dog lunged snarling at the squad leader, until one of the women called it off. "Whoever you are. you're in the wrong place." she told them. "There's nobody here but me and my sister and my old mother-in-law." The raiders...
...single blue bulb, revolved by hand in careful rhythmic paths, was used to suggest the atom's 92 electrons. The position of the camera was shifted constantly; 33 different time exposures were made and four separate lenses were used before Goro finally finished his picture...
Havana's government-operated television station CMQ presented an unusual Nativity scene for Cubans to ponder last week. Above the building's entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied...
...more energy than the others because their electrons are spinning in a different way. When the atom stream shoots through a system of magnets, the low-energy atoms in it are deflected sideways while the high-energy ones converge, pass through a small hole in a 6-in. quartz bulb. The bulb is lined with paraffin which does not affect the atom's energy state as metal or bare quartz would, so the atoms bounce about inside for as much as a whole second, hitting the walls 10,000 times without losing their extra energy...
...about 4 trillion particles enter the bulb in one second, the agitated gas gets dense enough to support a sort of chain reaction. A few atoms spontaneously lose their extra energy, which they emit in the form of photons (units) of radio microwaves about 21 cm. (8.3 in.) long. The newborn photons hit other hydrogen atoms and make them emit photons too. Then a pulse of microwaves bursts from the bulb and is gathered as high-frequency current by apparatus outside...