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...research at Bell Laboratories, as "sending a twelve-car freight train, locomotive and all, to carry a pound of butter." A transistor gets along with a millionth of a watt, not enough in most cases to make it faintly warm. The Bell men take a bit of blotting paper, chew it for a while, and wrap it moist around a 25? piece. When wires are clipped to this combination, it makes a battery strong enough to work a transistor...
...agricultural organization and 5) inefficient general management. These ailments cannot be cured, he said, by indiscriminately handling out dollars (Spanish officials would like about $300 or $400 million). "Spain will never die of starvation, but she can die of indigestion if we give her more beef than she can chew...
...scene, he looked as though he might chew up every backdrop in California; with a rich, bellowing bass to match his histrionics, the effect was heroic. After the death scene, the bravos all but blew the house in. Even the critics sounded their A's. The Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "Never before have I heard an audience gasp when an operatic hero fell dead; this is the final measure of the conviction with which Rossi played Boris." Declared Critic Cecil Smith in the News: "The most commanding Boris since Chaliapin...
That was 16 years ago. Ever since, young Robert Linsig of Marlboro, N.Y. has lived by grace of his rubber tube. Like other children, he learned to chew his own food, but instead of being able to swallow, he had to spoon it into the tube. Robert never let it get him down. He grew up healthy and active, went to school, scrapped with the other kids, and learned to play the bell-lyra in the Marlboro Central High School band...
...thing that always seems to go with sound teeth is vigorous chewing and tough food, Dr. Neumann finds. Wherever cutlery and good table manners appear, teeth decay. His prescription for postponing tooth decay: chew hard on tough, sour bread of the kind made by European peasants. Better still, let children chew raw sugar cane...