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Wrong Numbers. What is bugging the telephone? The machine is not at fault. The average telephone goes out of order only once every 4½ years. At telephone exchanges, the traditional electrical-mechanical crossbar switching equipment, which routes calls through an open path in an intricate network of switches, is so reliable that it averages only 20 seconds of down time a year. Newer electronic systems now being installed are not only faster than crossbars, but can be programmed like a computer to transfer calls automatically to another number when a subscriber is away from home...
...psyched-up Penn squad charged out on the field after halftime and once more dominated play. At 3:13 of the third period. Penn's Bruno V? smashed a long free kick toward the Crimson net. Goalie Meyors spun and watched the ball hit the overhead crossbar and come down...
Phinney fired another power shot at the Brown goal with three seconds left in regulation play. but Brown's goalie made a diving save to preserve the tie. Two five-minute overtime periods proved frustrating for both sides as each had sure goals hit the crossbar...
...acids apiece and two "heavy" chains of 446 each (see diagram). Schematically, the four chains, in which the acids are strung like beads, look like a letter T. The middle part of the T varies little from antibody to antibody. The chains' ends at the tips of the crossbar constitute the antibody's active regions and can be varied in billions of different ways to fit the structure of the particular foreign molecule that it is equipped to combat...
Harvard was caught holding on the play, however, and the TD was nullified. Wynne tried a field goal in the final six seconds of the half, but the ball bounced off the crossbar as time...