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Fortunately both fullbacks, Mike Scully and Herrick Drake, are back this year, as is Charlie Weiss, Harvard's All New England inside right last fall and a potential All-American this year. Richmond Miller is the only starting halfback not lost through graduation, but sophomore Pants Pantaleoni looms strong among the halfbacks candidates...
...news-starved Russian people took quick advantage. Voicemen believe that about 8,000,000 Russians listen regularly to bootlegged news from the West. The reports then flash by grapevine all over the Soviet Union. The Kremlin's answer was jamming. But, says Voiceman Herrick, "jamming is like a chess game." First you make a move. Your opponent makes a move; then you make a countermove...
...simplest kind of jamming, says Herrick, is to compete with the opponent on the same wave length. This is not very effective, for the human ear can hear a human voice through noise of greater intensity. A better technique is to broadcast on a wavelength slightly different from the opponent's. The two waves react on one another. The result of this collaboration is a squealing "beat," part of whose ear-whacking energy comes from each wave. Still better is the technique of varying the frequency of the jamming wave so that it straddles the opponent's. This...
Clipped Voice. An effective anti-jamming device is a "de-emphasizing and pre-emphasizing clipper" developed by Herrick and his crew. It distorts the voice a little but at the same time makes it more intelligible and harder to obliterate...
...Voiceman Herrick is confident that superior U.S. and British technology can lick the Soviet jammers. In this sort of warfare the offensive generally has the advantage. It is almost impossible to drive all unauthorized words out of a nation's air. During World War II, the Nazis used massive jamming equipment and also made it a capital crime to listen to Allied broadcasts. But the news still got through...