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...entire ploy was doubtless intended in part to please Albania's pal, Red China. The embassy harassment began last December, on the very eve of a visit by Peking's touring Chou Enlai, who was welcomed in the gnat-size Balkan backwater (pop. 1,800,000) with the brave slogan: "We and the Chinese are 700 million strong...
...yearly-which is to say that Wallace A. Ross grosses $85,000 a year, because the almost imperceptible fact is that the American TV Commercials Festival is essentially a one-man show. The man is Wally Ross, 39, who is just a little less aggressive than a 200-lb. gnat...
...baseman Petey Kann. The Crimson scored its lone two runs in the sixth inning on a 500 ft. blast by Al "Four Eyes" Crenshaw, one-time geologist and photo chairman. The play had been set up by a crucial bobble of an easy infield fly ball, hit by Richard "Gnat" Ruge...
...breakthrough had come as Physicist Robert J. Keyes checked on the properties of a gallium arsenide diode developed by Lincoln Lab Engineer Theodore M. Quist. A less-than-gnat-sized electronic device that generates pure infra-red light when a small direct current is passed through it, the diode turned out to have an extraordinary property: the intensity of the normally invisible infra-red beam could be easily controlled by varying the strength of the current that generates it. Keyes speculated that if his little light beam was visible at any distance, it could be modulated to carry the human...
...Renloan war was of course a show. It was enacted in a swampy, gnat-infested, 3½-million acre slice of North and South Carolina. Some 70,000 U.S. soldiers and flyers played the parts of the invaders and the defenders. But it was also a deadly serious show-the biggest U.S. peacetime maneuvers since bewildered draftees, carrying wooden machine guns, sludged through the Louisiana boondocks in 1941. And the exercise was the first major test of a new U.S. fighting force: STRIKE Command. (The Russians were also conducting some imaginative war games of their own-see THE WORLD...