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That's how it looks in the crystal ball: the Crimson--but only after it has adjusted its defense to the Penn single-wing. It might take one series to get going: it shouldn't take more than one quarter...
...Solid state" is an inclusive term that covers electronic and related devices whose action takes place in solid materials, usually crystals, instead of in the vacuum of electronic tubes. In many cases the action is similar. The transistor, the most famous solid-state device, is closely analogous to the familiar tubes in radios. Chief difference is that the electrons that make it work do not move across a pumped-out vacuum. Instead, they move through the tiny clear channels between the lined-up atoms of a germanium or silicon crystal, which provide a sort of readymade vacuum...
Space between the planets looks crystal clear to the unscientific eye. But there is indirect evidence that a very thin gas pervades at least some parts of it. Scientists have argued for years about this tenuous stuff: one theory holds that interplanetary space is filled with "resident" gas that has nothing to do with the planets; another claims that the outer fringe of the sun's glowing corona sometimes reaches out as far as the earth's orbit. The issue remained in doubt for the simple reason that no one had actually sampled interplanetary space, but in Britain...
...first seeing TIME'S cover picture of Senator Lyndon Johnson, I thought it in good taste to thus pay tribute to a good loser. A few hours later, Johnson's V.P. nomination made it appear that TIME must use a crystal ball to decide such matters. This brought home to me the dilemma that must face the editor in choosing the cover picture for an edition that must roll off the press before the nomination and reach the newsstands after the choice has been made. Senator Johnson's cover picture uniquely demonstrates TIME'S ability...
...prospects for further improvement are good." Moving Sideways. In its July monthly letter, the First National City Bank of New York cautiously clouded its crystal ball, noted that "the good and bad ele ments in the business news have continued roughly in balance in recent weeks and the overall measure of activity has moved broadly sideways." In San Fran cisco, James Black, chairman of Pacific Gas & Electric, the West Coast's largest public utility, took a serious view of the economy's uncertainty, said it spurred the kind of "depression-maybe" talk that was last heard...