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...oscillographs, developed by Stanford University Electrical Engineer Richard Sweet, uses a vibration hardly as violent as a shiver to write a permanent record of oscilloscope traces that have only been caught in the past by delicate and expensive motion picture film. Spewed through a tiny nozzle, the ink droplets pick up a charge from an electrode attached to an oscilloscope. Then they fall, at the rate of 100,000 a second, between two electrically charged plates and hit a rapidly moving roll of recording paper. Each drop carries an electric charge that mirrors the changing electrical signal being detected...
...like 007 just as he is, worse is to come. Pitted once more against Ernst Blofeld, the fell master of the international crime syndicate called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revenge and Extortion), Bond at first displays his customary stocks in trade. He uses his own urine as invisible ink, and successfully escapes from Blofeld's Alpine retreat by a daredevil schuss down the snow-covered, moonlit slope-as patrols of goons with guns set an avalanche tumbling down after him. Then, suddenly, Bond is threatened with what, for an international cad, would clearly be a fate worse than...
...years ago he foolhardily set out to bring big-time soccer to the soccer-resistant U.S., founded the International Soccer League. It has lost money, predictably, but this year's overall attendance, 288,743, was roughly double the 1960 total, and for a change Cox envisions black ink. Attendance would soar, he is convinced, if the league could get a U.S. team capable of competing against the top European and Latin American squads that play in the I.S.L...
...even large office buildings. Already in use by advertising mailers, ZIP eliminates as many as six separate handlings, and, says Day, will save the Post Office $15 million in its first year. The Post Office will soon begin using still another Day innovation: air mail stamps printed with magnetized ink so that air mail can be separated quickly from regular letters by electronic devices...
...sound of a tunnel being chipped through the concrete floor of a bunkhouse washroom, the clink of the pick is synchronized with the banging of the hammer innocently driving a horseshoe-pitching stake outside. Wardrobes of German clothes are run up from blankets and uniforms dyed in coffee or ink; whole wallets full of identity papers are forged; money, emergency rations, maps are scrounged. The tunnel is a marvel of Swiss Family Robinson ingenuity, with electric lights, a little subway running on wooden tracks, a bellows-operated ventilation system. And as the first of the 76 escapers starts through...