Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...microphone as small as a pinhead? It is on its way. A Raytheon Co. scientist has discovered that transistors, which are far smaller than any ordinary microphones, have areas that can detect fantastically faint mechanical forces and translate them into sizable changes of voltage -just as a microphone does...
...equally stupid on both sides." The roles that remain are scarce and sometimes harmful to the actor, and many Negro actors can find no work at all. "Qualified people are not even allowed to audition," says Diahann Carroll, star of the Broadway musical, No Strings, which owes its faint critical success entirely...
...Faint Current. Republic's tiny protons, which are the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, act exactly like small bar magnets. When they are placed in a magnetic field, they tend to line up like a bunch of compass needles. If the magnetic field changes direction, it tries to pull the protons around with it. But protons have a mysterious property called "spin" that makes them react like small spinning wheels. When the magnetic field changes direction, they do not follow obediently. Instead, they resist the turning motion, just as if they were gyro wheels...
...passing through two coils of wire creates a magnetic field that makes protons in a small, water-filled sphere (sometimes a pingpong ball) line up in one direction. When the coils are turned, their magnetic field turns with them; the protons resist, and in their struggle they generate a faint electric current that can be picked up by a second pair of coils...
...former vice president of the National Broadcasting Co. (where he turned the Today and Tonight shows into moneymakers), Culligan could lead Curtis to a new rapport with Madison Avenue-a necessary ingredient in any improvement at Curtis. Said one advertising executive: "Culligan is a tiger of a salesman." Faint Hope. Curtis is in desperate need of a tiger. In the past year, the company has experimented with a variety of schemes the family had traditionally opposed. The sacred subscription lists of its five magazines (the Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, American Home and Jack and Jill) have recently been...