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...practice. Magneform - a tool little larger than a home washing machine and using no more current than an electric range - has no moving parts at all. Its essential part is a coil of heavy wire that can take var ious shapes, including a cylinder, a doughnut or a flat disk. When a massive electric current from a capacitor is shot suddenly through a coil, it creates an intense magnetic field in the space around it. If a piece of metal is near by, the magnetism starts currents flowing in the metal. These currents are surrounded by their own magnetism...
Legaldygook. Such presumptuousness would appall other professions, and some lawyers pooh-pooh the whole idea. The average law review, scoffs Yale's iconoclastic Law Professor Fred Rodell, "sounds like a 33-r.p.m. disk played at 78," a cacophony of "turgid, legaldy-gooky garbage." Nonetheless, law reviews-most notably those published by Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Stanford and Yale-are more influential than ever. A law-review job shapes a man's entire later life. Usually tapped at the end of freshman year, recruits are chosen by the outgoing editorial staff purely on the basis of class rank...
...little Thunderbird can load it with just about every luxury option Detroit has, from automatic transmission to a big V-8 to air conditioning. Finally, the sports-car purist who wants performance and more horsepower can spend up to $3,500 by adding a European-style stiff suspension, disk brakes and a fourspeed manual transmission. Next year Ford will also add a fastback model to the line...
Obviously no typical dropout, he went on to success and riches in show business. But he still feels mild pangs of guilt about his casual academic career, and the song is supposed to make dropouts squirm. It does. Several West Coast disk jockeys told Sherman that they won't play the song during peak audience hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's when the dropouts are still moping around the house wondering what trouble to get into. Mustn't offend them...
...test such tiny apparatus, the disk is locked in a machine, and a probe with many electrical contacts in its tip is pressed against each circuit. Currents flowing through the contacts check out every element of the circuit, and if it fails to meet all requirements,' the probe marks it for rejection with a speck of dye. Then another machine makes checkerboard scratches between the circuits, and they are separated into "dice" by breaking the brittle disk along the scratches...