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...Optical Mismatch. Gabor's technique was elegantly simple. He filtered out all but the green light emitted by a powerful mercury arc lamp, producing a beam of light waves of a single frequency (ordinary sunlight is composed of many different frequencies). Then he aimed the beam at an object placed in front of a photographic plate. The unobstructed part of the light beam hit the plate directly. Light waves reflected from the object's irregular surface also reached the photographic plate. But because they had bounced off different parts of the object, they arrived at the plate...
...friendship proved to be a mismatch. Russia poured in experts, goods and equipment with little idea what Cuba needed. The Cubans in turn expected miracles from their new ally and banked on fancy experts to solve their problems for them. But when Karushchev's new cane cutting-machines mangled every stalk they touched, it became obvious that these experts and their machines were just Russian bears. Their pre-set ideas of development based on an Eastern European model could not help agrarian Cuba...
...middle-aged prep night at the shrine of Boston High School hockey, the Arena, and as the faithful alumni ruined their pin-striped behinds on the bubble-gum parked by generations of Southie and Eastie fans, Harvard slaughtered Yale in a predictable mismatch...
...according to Harvard ticket manager Gordon Page, only about 50 students will risk their wallets to make the long trek to one of Boston's seedier parts to witness the mismatch...
...champion Dartmouth looked as powerful as its co-defenders, Yale and Princeton. The Indians crushed Holy Cross in a mismatch...