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...early morning quiet of Cabot Hall was shattered as Buildings and Grounds held its annual "Surprise Fire Drill" at 7 a.m. yesterday...
...against Labor's program to renationalize the steel industry. Right behind Maudling and Heath in authority Sir Alec installed Selwyn Lloyd, 60, onetime Foreign Secretary and a highly regarded party stalwart who was sacked by Macmillan as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1961. Lloyd's job: to drill the backbench battalions for the counteroffensive against Labor in the Parliament that opens this week...
...into direct current with reasonable efficiency. Thousands of diodes, strung like glass beads on a network of wires, are needed to intercept Raytheon's beam. In the model helicopter demonstrated last week, they feed direct current at about 100 volts to a small motor taken from an electric drill. The beam of 2,450-megacycle microwaves starts out with three kilowatts of power; the diode antenna turns it into electricity with an efficiency of about...
Conway can run now, but unless he can participate in Wednesday's contact drill, it's doubtful that he'll start Saturday...
...eyeball, Dr. Bronson was able to get a rough idea where the object was, and Dr. Passmore proceeded to remove the useless, damaged lens from Jimmy's eye. Then Dr. Bronson took up the ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick as a pencil lead, emitted ultrasound pulses and picked up the echoes that came back from objects in their path. The time difference between pulse and echo, shown as a peak on a tiny oscilloscope (like a one-inch TV tube) held in an assistant surgeon...