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...lighter weight classes. Phil Herrera at 123, and Ed Keating at 130 are the top performers. Hererra comes from Guatemala city, Guatemala; Keating is a local boy, graduate of Roxbury Latin...
Transist-Ear. Minneapolis' Maico Co. will begin sale next month of a hearing aid the size of a cigarette lighter which weighs only 2½ oz. Three germanium transistors take the place of vacuum tubes for amplification, and in place of conventional batteries, Transist-Ear's power comes from a mercury capsule the size of a dime, good for 75 hrs. Replacement capsules cost about 25?. Price: around...
...passenger plane powered by Boeing's small turboprop engine, the world's first turboprop light plane. A piston-powered model of the plane, the "Bird Dog" has been widely used in Korea on observation missions. The turboprop version, which has a cruise rating of 175 h.p., is lighter than earlier models, and has somewhat longer range and can operate on all grades and ranges of fuel, a big advantage in combat zones...
...crowd of over 800 watched McNamara's three scoring jaunts. The lighter Berkeley team threatened only once in the entire game and the outcome was never in doubt...
...things in a lighter vein, I asked Clasby what his biggest sports thrill at Harvard has been. "Which sport?" he asked me back. I had forgotten that I was questioning the man who will probably be Harvard's first major sport nine-letter winner in many years. I specified football, and he thought for a moment. "I guess it would be that 96-yard run against Washington," he said...