Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...range and effectiveness of Soviet battlefield atomic weapons; to test entire weapons systems by mating new warheads to missiles; and to conduct "proof" tests of weapons already in the Soviet stockpile. The current test series is almost certainly providing the Russians with valuable data for development of small-and medium-yield weapons, an area where they have been weak. At least one underwater blast, totaling 10 kilotons, was probably the developmental test of a depth charge geared with an eye on the threat of U.S. Polaris missiles...
During the next 48 hours the East Germans got reinforcements: more than 70 Soviet medium tanks, which parked unobtrusively in the side streets near the border crossing, as the U.S. made a fourth sortie into the Russian sector. For one night, U.S. and Soviet tanks squared off at the point-blank range of 200 yards, but both sides lumbered off at morning without incident. It was the first time that Russian tanks had appeared in Berlin since they put down the uprising in June 1953. No word of their presence has appeared in the East German press...
...million; it has made "4711" cologne Germany's biggest TV advertiser, and pushes 30 other products ranging from Opel cars to Henkel soaps. In second place, with billings approaching $20 million, is J. Walter Thompson, which has helped to make the Ford Taurus Germany's hottest-selling medium-priced car, and has had to move to roomier offices seven times since it opened in West Germany nine years ago. Fastest growing of all is Young & Rubicam, which started in 1955 and has vaulted into the top ten among agencies by boosting its billings 300% this year...
...related but somewhat different task of converting wiggles in plastic into electrical signals approximating those originally made by the recoring engineer's mikes. While neither a speaker nor a microphone can harm the air it contacts in its attention to its duty, a cartridge can wreak havoc on its medium, the plastic of your records. Clearly, your choice of a cartridge will have a strong bearing on the satisfaction you receive from your home music system. The immediate factor of sound quality and the long range effect of record life will determine the grade you give your cartridge...
...time contribute to controlling it-a possibility with tremendous implications for every farmer, fisherman or merchant. Communications satellites, the first of which will be launched within the next year by A.T. & T. and RCA, will ultimately enable nations to see and speak with each other through the medium of global television...