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...doctor's waiting room. The recessed lighting shines dimly on glass-framed award certificates, hung on the walls like diplomas. The silence is emphasized by the drone of voices from the massive color TV set, always on and tuned to WBZ-TV, and is broken occasionally by a buzz from the switchboard behind a high counter, followed by the receptionist's greeting, "WBZ, Group W." Instead of patients, middle-aged promotion men holding bundles of paper-jacketed 15's sit talking of the publicity job for an Al Hirt concert and about bringing the Four Seasons to Boston...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: WBZ: A "Contemporary" Music Station | 2/7/1966 | See Source »

...record 4,104 m.p.h. and the 17,500-m.p.h. velocities of orbiting space capsules. Designed for the near future, these scramjets (supersonic combustion ramjets) will be powered by an engine out of the near past-an advanced version of the pulse jet that boosted Germany's V-l "buzz bombs" over Britain toward the end of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Here Comes the Flying Stovepipe | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

Over the tall green pines of south eastern Alabama, singly and in forma tions of seven, the ungainly olive-drab helicopters swoop and buzz like dragonflies. Night and day they churn above the Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker. They blast the wire-grass country with rockets, machine-gun slugs and grenades. They execute intricate maneuvers high in the sky and inches off the ground, turning once-tranquil skies into some of the world's most congested airspace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Caps Set for Copters | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...necessary supply of hydroelectric power and forced the company to look elsewhere for nickel oxide. Before turning to Castro, they tried to buy supplies from the 166,761-ton U.S. Government nickel stockpile, but Washington turned them down. Authorities of both Le Nickel and the French government buzz that the U.S. has another, more devious reason for boycotting Le Nickel: early this year the company closed a $20 million deal to sell 19 million Ibs. of finished nickel to Red China. Despite French denials, U.S. Commerce and State Department officers speculate that Charles de Gaulle's government may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Behind the Nickel Curtain | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...Quaker backfield is not particularly distinguished. Fullback Whit Smith is a hard-running 220-pounder with a 3.0 yard rushing average. Halfback Buzz Hannum, a third-stringer last year, has a 2.9 yard average...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Crimson Face Molloy-Less Penn Today | 10/30/1965 | See Source »

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