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...machine guns. Signs were everywhere. SONS OF ERIN, UNITE! they said. RUB THEIR NOSES IN THE IRISH SOD! Sturdy young men stopped strangers, flashed their "Hate State!" buttons and inquired politely: "You wouldn't be a State man, now, would you?" South Bend, Ind., was no place for the faint of heart last week. Notre Dame, the No. 1 college football team in the nation, was taking on Archrival Michigan State?and the Fighting Irish were in a fighting mood...
...Army's new night peeper leaves no such signature. It needs only the faint light that comes from the moon, stars or sky glow, which is never entirely absent. This light, bouncing off targets, is focused on a semitransparent screen at the front end of an extremely sensitive electron tube. The screen is photoemissive-it gives off electrons when struck by the faintest light. These photoelectrons are then speeded up by high electrical charges so that when they hit a phosphor (luminescent) screen in the tube, they make a much brighter image. The process is repeated three times, until...
...measure of the excellence of Jonathan Black's Seagull that it never does seem ridiculous. This is not to damn with faint praise. The opening night audience was knowledgeable and nervous. It knew what was potentially amusing and tittered at the slightest awkwardness. Everyone seemed to be dying to laugh out-right. But Black and his cast practically never let them...
...Crimson soccer team rushed from behind in the second half on Saturday to bury Princeton, 4-1 and revive once-faint hopes for a share of the Ivy League title...
...detected by seismographs thousands of miles away. In the air the shock wave turns into a sound wave that weakens as it travels until it dwindles into a brief rise of barometric pressure. In its last weak form, the wave can cover thousands of miles before it becomes too faint for microbarographs to distinguish it from natural variations of atmospheric pressure. The U.S. undoubtedly had many seismographs and microbarographs stationed around China to be on the alert for its maiden test...