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...hour, he discovered that he could station a man inside and let him oversee his charges through the glass door. Yesterday afternoon, with a similar number of proctors in Emerson D, only one student at a time could go to the lavatory and all departures for smoking were stopped fifteen minutes after the authorities had first granted permission...
...beams fan northward over the Arctic from four antennas, each the size of a 3O-story building. While still ascending, an enemy missile would pass through the low-altitude beam, then the higher one, providing a fix for computers to crank out its speed, direction, probable point of impact. Fifteen minutes before the missile could land, the combat operations center in Colorado Springs would be warned. The word would flash instantly to the White House, the Pentagon, Ottawa, regional air-defense commanders, the Strategic Air Command and Civil Defense officials...
...Ceglarski, in his fourth year as hockey coach at Clarkson, has fifteen returning lettermen and three sophomore forwards, Brian Wilkinson, Corbett Adams, and Roger Purdie. They form a line which has produced an average of three goals a game this year...
...sheet blankets a short distance from all the walls and covered the entire floor with thick carpets to soften the reverberations. The result of his efforts is still a rather "live" room, but one which is infinitely comfortable to listen in. Most listening is done at a distance of fifteen to twenty feet from the speakers. This seems to add to the illusion of live performance, since imperfections such as surface noise, tape hiss, static, etc., are blended into the atmosphere. None of this would have been possible in an area smaller than his huge basement...
...cast. When they stood stop the school's roof in the final moment, I had no doubt that they had won a lasting victory. The impossible had become true; a daydream was reality. It's so convincing, in fact, that the French Ministry of Education suppressed it for fifteen years, fearing that it would cause discipline in the schools to slacken. At a press conference, the film caused a riot...