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...twelve horses broke from the gate and swept around the first turn. Hartack kept the Dancer under a tight rein. Mr. Brick, a 16 to 1 long shot, set the pace through the backstretch; Hill Rise was sixth, the Dancer seventh. Then Hartack glanced to his right, saw Shoemaker flick his reins to urge Hill Rise forward. That was the signal. Hartack clucked to Northern Dancer, and in one wonderful burst of speed, the little colt bolted past Hill Rise, past Mr. Brick, past everybody, and into the clear. Turning for home, the Dancer had a two-length lead...
...different coils do different jobs. When the end of a metal tube is inserted into the doughnut-shaped coil, it can be shrunk tightly around any insert such as a plug or a threaded fitting. To expand a metal tube, a cylindrical coil is pushed inside it. A flick of the switch, and the tube expands to bind itself solidly to whatever surrounds it. To stamp a flat piece of metal with a pattern, a trademark of elaborate lettering, the metal is placed between a flat coil and a die. When the coil is activated, the opposing magnetic field...
...film was on the bill, we asked Mr. Giampa, while he inspected our card, "Which one's on now?" He replied, "The lousy one," and we wilted at the thought that Heavenly Bodies might, after all, be what some people we don't know very well call a 'skin flick.' Hoping Mr. Giampa was referring to the lesser feature, we asked, almost suggested, "White Slavery?" He answered "Yeah." We sighed with relief. Sensing our anxiety, Mr. Joseph Watson, the "student assistant manager," reassured us that "Heavenly Bodies is a good one, a very good one." And added reflectively, "Mr. Giampa...
...very own Golden Treasury of Dr. Kildare to keep forever. The Cinerama-Telcan does the trick. It is a videotape recorder no bigger than a bread box. Wired into a home TV set, it can record programs off the air as they are being watched. Then, with a flick of the switch, Telcan can play them back immediately or at any future time as desired. The machine can be halted during commercials, or they can be snipped out later. The neatest part of the trick is the price: under $300. The least expensive "home" TV recorder previously available...
...every lock. The minute he sees the heroine he starts weaving Lemmoniacal schemes to lure her into his "sin bin," a flat with blood-red wallpaper, passion-pit living room, bed about the size of Luxembourg, and two Murphy violins that hideaway in a closet and at the flick of a switch pop out and play...