Word: midgeter
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...owners who want the images to appear on their screens. To receive color telecasts even in black & white, set owners must spend $30-$50 for an adapter. When plugged into the set, the shoebox-shaped adapter (about the size of a midget radio) reduces the number of "scanned" lines on each screen from the 525 used for ordinary telecasts to the 405 lines required by the CBS system. To get telecasts in color, set owners must spend another $75-$100 for a converter. The converter is a whirling, motor-driven disc which slides in front of the TV screen...
...made the public suspicious of all official denials. What sort of new, fantastic wonders may be concealed behind the denials? Modern air engines (turbojets, ramjets, rockets) are powerful enough to make almost anything fly. Disc-shaped helicopters with ramjets on their rotor edges are not impossible. They are not midget-manned space ships but their test flights might have provided a base for flying saucer reports...
...yachtsmen, a youngster old enough to sit still is old enough to learn to sail. On Long Island Sound, cruising ground of thousands of summer sailors, a boy or girl of ten is old enough to race his own boat in "midget" class (under 15 years) events. Last week the best of the midgets raced for the championship of the Sound, and the silver-crusted Scovill Cup which is emblematic...
...that a midget really needs in the Sound's top event for young sailors is a boat of the 19-ft. Lightning class, good sense about sailing fundamentals and, for emergencies, the ability to swim. The 13 competitors at New Rochelle's Huguenot Yacht Club last week had a bit more than that. They were the individual champs of 13 yacht clubs and several of them had raced for the Scovill Cup before...
...boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat Bay Yacht Club, it was the first Scovill Cup victory in 25 years of midget racing...