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Included in Patterson's talk on his Stratford company will be a 16 mm film of last year's Shakespeare festival. The lectures this year are designed to focus on the theatre problem at Harvard...
Smallest Transmitter. A 20-mm. shell is less than an inch in diameter, but Roy J. Smollet of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md., has built a radio transmitter that fits into its nose and leaves room to spare. The transmitter has one transistor, a coil half an inch across, and a mercury battery considerably smaller than a dime. When the shell is fired, it sends out a wave that tells how the shell is spinning and whether it is wobbling in its flight...
...House of Commons last week, Under Secretary of State for Air George Ward made an admission that shocked Britain. The Royal Air Force's most promising operational jet fighter, the high-firepower, 650-m.p.h. Hawker Hunter, is stalled by an unlooked-for defect: when its four 30-mm. cannons are fired "at certain heights and in certain conditions of flight," its engine flames...
Fact Omitted. Percy knows his foreign competition. Before World War II, said he, Bell & Howell brought out a high-priced 35-mm. still camera, lost $1,250,000 competing with foreign manufacturers. "The temptation, of course, was great to seek higher tariff protection, [but] we felt that we had no right to ask the American people to pay a higher price for foreign cameras simply because we had decided to go into this field. In 1952 we discontinued production of the camera...
...dark suits slipped out, 9-mm. German-made Schmeisser burp-guns cradled in their arms, and crawled behind a hedge that ran only 20 feet from where the President sat. At 7:20 a string of firecrackers exploded somewhere in the neighborhood. "They are celebrating a birthday over there," a member of the Remón party remarked. Two minutes later bursts of machine-gun fire sprayed the box. Two men died instantly; Remón's heavy frame slumped to the floor, blood darkening his pleated white sport shirt. "That was no firecracker," he gasped...