Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wintertime Down Under. The beaches were deserted, the bikinis packed away, the tennis stars halfway around the world at Wimbledon. Both the Sydney press and the Canberra embassy cocktail circuit were hard up for a topic. Then, voila! The Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia disappeared without a trace. Who? Well, actually, even in sleepy Canberra Tun Lim Yew Hock, 51, wasn't exactly well known; but once he had dropped from sight, suddenly almost everyone recalled having seen the dapper, pipe-smoking little diplomat at parties or the Canberra race track where, it was whispered excitedly, he had lost...
Married. Rod Laver, 27, Australian tennis star, the second amateur ever to win the Australian, Wimbledon, French and U.S. titles in one year (1962), now top moneymaker on the pro circuit; and Mary Bensen, 35, California accountant; she for the second time; in San Rafael, Calif...
Weinfeld's approval of Elksnis' writ of habeas corpus left the state with a choice between appealing Weinfeld's ruling to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and retrying Elksnis on the murder charge. What is not known is whether the ruling will bring a flood of appeals from convicts who struck similar bargains and now figure they will beat the rap because time has eroded the evidence...
...since 1964, the mighty, 2,000-m.p.h. experimental craft has been gremlin plagued. On Valkyrie 1's maiden flight, a runaway engine had to be shut down and four tires blew out. Two months ago, Valkyrie 2 was saved when its copilot used a paper clip to short-circuit a crazed computer and free its locked-in landing gear (TIME...
...those ions move down the tube creating, in effect, an electric current. The electrical resistance that develops is overcome by the energy of the moving gas, and a collector electrode picks the positive ions off the fly ash at the end of the tube. The electrical circuit is completed when ions flow from the collector electrode, down a transmission line, and back to the corona discharge electrode where they began their trip...