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...equipped with electric switches in their tips. Wires run down the fencers' arms and out the tails of their jackets to reels that are mounted at the end of the fencing strip. A solid touch with either épée sounds a buzzer and turns on a light. The hookup can distinguish between touches only one twenty-fifth of a second apart...
...electronic blood-pressure recorder developed by the National Bureau of Standards has been marketed by Colson Corp. of Elyria, Ohio. Attached to the patient's arm, it will record blood pressure at whatever intervals the doctors want, from 30 seconds to an hour. Attached to a buzzer, it can call the nurse when pressure gets critically low. Price...
...lineup against Princeton was shuffled in a consistent fashion so that almost everyone worked with at least two different combinations. This system gave the team enough resting time to keep up a fast pace throughout the game and even score a seventh goal as the final buzzer sounded...
Only seven seconds remained when sophomore Bob Barnett sank what seemed to be the winning basket for the Crimson. But Tom Cullinane, a substitute forward for B.C., put in a rebound a second before the buzzer and sent the game into overtime...
...radio hookup between the competing schools and Quizmaster Allen Ludden in Manhattan. Ludden, a 37-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Texas, first throws out a "tossup" question; as soon as a player thinks he knows the answer he signals his referee to push the team's buzzer, which instantly lights a bulb in the Manhattan studio (white for the champion team, red for the challenger) and automatically cuts off the impulse from the other team. If the answer is right, it earns ten points and gives the winners a chance at a bonus question worth from...