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...Weizmann team soon developed a simple diamond-identifying device. It consists of a small helium-neon laser that directs a beam of light through a pinhole in a sheet of Polaroid film and onto a diamond. As the laser's uniform light waves hit the "table" (or top facet) of the gem, some of them are reflected. Others enter the diamond, circle around inside it and are refracted at varying angles. The result is a unique pattern of spots on the film that looks like a bright, star-cluttered sky; in more advanced versions of the system, the spots...
...facet of rent control's administration which both reports miss is the fact that it is biased against the small landlord. The large landlord who owns a number of properties has the money and know-how to get the most out of rent control; the live-in owner of one or two buildings may not. Furthermore, present rent rates in Cambridge are based on 1967 rates which tend to be higher in buildings owned by large landlords, both because they were more attuned to what the going rates were, and because owner-occupiers often rent at reduced rates to friends...
That the "baby lift" is another facet of our emotionalism with respect to South Viet Nam is undeniable. But that it is being used by the Administration to manipulate emotions in favor of the President and against the Congress is highly questionable...
Malcolm was now calling for revolution instead of condemning it as impossible. He realized that the domestic black struggle was only one facet of the world revolution against imperialism. Through his fledgling Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) Malcolm was hammering home to American blacks the message that they were part of a world-wide struggle, a struggle in which they were in the majority as peoples of color. The attempts of the white media to smear him as a "hate-monger" who taught "racism in reverse" (as if an oppressed nationality acting in self-defense is capable of institutionalizing...
Actually, professional camera crews had been filming nearly every facet of the dinner for use in Jackson's unusual, slickly contrived announcement last week of his candidacy for the presidency. The five-minute documentary, created for Jackson by Producer David Wolper at a total cost of $30,000 (including air time on the CBS network), opened with the candidate rising from his table at the Century Plaza to the applause of the guests and beginning his speech to them. The scene set an affective cinema verite tone for the filmed highlights of Jackson's career that followed...