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Double Passage. Davis made a Möbius loop out of a strip of nonconducting plastic that had metal foil bonded to both sides to serve as an electrical resistance. He attached wires to the foil on opposite sides of the strip. When he sent electrical pulses through those wires, the current divided, flowed in both directions through the foil, and passed itself twice. Because of the double passage, the inductance was as low as Davis had hoped. He is delighted but still puzzled. The pulses apparently pass right through themselves, and he cannot be sure...
...more people to sign a minority report if one is necessary." He concludes with an appeal to the press to demand that the Credentials Committee hearings be moved from is present room--too small to allow news coverage--to the ballroom in Convention Hall. Rauh is trying to foil Johnson's efforts to smother the challenge...
...ritual to which he had become accustomed and which he accepted, unwillingly but gracefully. Grouped around the desk in the Baltimore clubhouse were half a dozen reporters for the usual postmortem. They watched Hank Bauer reduce an empty beer can to tin foil with one quick crunch of his hammy fist. "They gotta catch us," Bauer announced. "And if we keep winning, they can't, can they?" Silence. "But Hank," somebody wanted to know, "is the long summer beginning to get to your players...
...home the leftovers on their plates that restaurant supply houses now sell millions of special greaseproof containers for this purpose each year. "The demand is growing so great," says a flack for elegant Ernie's in San Francisco, "that we are now in the process of having a foil-lined box designed for us that will carry the restaurant's crest...
...ultimate in Bowser baggery may have occurred at Ernie's, when six fashionable San Franciscans ordered a rack of lamb, then got so thoroughly marinated in martinis that they couldn't eat the meat. Home with the host went the entire roast, with all its trimmings, foil-wrapped on a silver salver...