Word: looped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Is Ready. From its 19-story, stainless-steel headquarters in Chicago's Loop, Inland is run by another highly concentrated facility of a sort: Chairman Joseph Block, 62, whose grandfather founded the company in 1893. A pipe-smoking intellectual who surrounds himself and his colleagues with modern art, Block angered competitors in 1962 by holding the price line during the steel crisis. Although he recently came out for steel price rises now, Block is realistic enough to admit that "I don't think there is much likelihood of an across-the-board increase any time soon...
...Those solutions work well, but not quite well enough for today's high-power equipment. At Sandia Corp. in Albuquerque, Physicist Richard L. Davis was busy trying to devise improvements. One day he let his mind wander and remembered an old mathematical parlor trick, the Möbius loop. * Math suddenly merged with electronics, and Davis had what he was searching for: the design of a noninductive Möbius resistor...
...bius loop can be made by cutting a harrow strip of paper and gluing its ends together after giving the strip a half-turn. The loop that results has peculiar qualities. Most important, though the paper it is made of has two sides, the loop itself has only one surface. This can be proved by drawing a pencil line down the middle of the strip. The pencil line covers both sides of the paper and returns to the starting point without the strip's being turned over. When cut along the pencil line, the paper forms not two loops...
Double Passage. Davis made a Möbius loop out of a strip of nonconducting plastic that had metal foil bonded to both sides to serve as an electrical resistance. He attached wires to the foil on opposite sides of the strip. When he sent electrical pulses through those wires, the current divided, flowed in both directions through the foil, and passed itself twice. Because of the double passage, the inductance was as low as Davis had hoped. He is delighted but still puzzled. The pulses apparently pass right through themselves, and he cannot be sure...
...fruit or not, the Japanese look in motorbikes is a hot new trend in U.S. transportation. They are buzzing all over the place-putt-putting up and down San Francisco's hills, snaking doctor, lawyer and merchant chief through the thromboid Los Angeles freeways, threading Chicago's Loop at rush hour, beating the parking problem on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. In suburbs, they bring home the bacon and buzz off to the neighbors. In hunting country they go camping and trail-riding. On campus they go on dates and even (when it rains) into dormitories. West Coast...