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Very cagily−since by this time I was certain that Howard knew every detail about my every move−I booked to Phoenix not on TWA but on United. When I got there, I rented not a Hertz or an Avis but a local firm's car. I drove to the Luce home not by established routes but by enormous circles. Then I drove to the back of the circular driveway and hid my rented Ford behind a large lilac bush...
Last Fall, he and five teammates were rushing along the Major Deegan Expressway in New York hoping to catch a plane in time to make it back to Boston for a concert by Sly and the Family Stone. It was a Hertz Chevrolet driven by Keith Colburn...
Accident number three occurred on the Kansas Turnpike with Royce Shaw at the wheel. He and Colburn had decided to see who could drive the Hertz car farther in an hour, and Shaw looked like a sure winner until he couldn't handle a bend in the road and began to swerve back and forth. "That one seared me,'" Spengler recalls...
Tiny Waves. To help relieve the overcrowding, engineers are busily experimenting with new broadcast channels. At present, the highest frequency authorized for commercial communications is 12 billion hertz (for cycles per second), which lies at the extreme upper end of the microwave band. Eventually, researchers hope to communicate on frequencies as high as 300 billion hertz, thus greatly expanding the capacity of the air waves. But they will first have to overcome a major natural obstacle. The very small waves produced at such high frequencies-which are as short as one millimeter (compared with 55 meters or more for standard...
...monitoring oscilloscope, he recalls, he saw "a bump that hadn't been there before." When the antenna was slightly moved, the bump disappeared. The scientists could scarcely believe their eyes. Though the equipment had just been switched on, it was already vigorously responding at 115 billion hertz-the fingerprint of carbon monoxide. The carbon-monoxide signals are, in fact, so strong, Jefferts says, that they almost "jump up and bite you." Any lingering doubts were totally dispelled in the next few nights. Shifting their telescope to other areas of the Milky Way, the astrochemists found at least ten galactic...