Word: leith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...families who went to Edinburgh in the train of Mary Queen of Scots. Nondescript caddy yards seem unlikely vessels of tradition for a game whose aristocratic origins date back to the reign of King Charles I. Charles received the news of the Irish Rebellion while playing a round at Leith, but the legend of Hagen's verve and reckless gamesmanship has managed to bridge the years and has found its way to Bartlett. Although Hagen died in 1969, slumped in the corner of Rochester's ramshackle caddy pen sits a greybeard who Bartlett says "used to caddy for Hagen...
...Reality. Gabor's holograms were crude because his beam of filtered green light was not intense enough to produce a clear image. But in 1963, after the invention of the laser made available powerful single-frequency light waves that were precisely in phase. University of Michigan Physicists Emmett Leith and Juris Uptanieks made Gabor's holography a practical reality. Already used in displays, material testing, medical diagnosis and computer memory banks, holography has potential for 3-D movies and, some day, for television...