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...turn it into direct current with reasonable efficiency. Thousands of diodes, strung like glass beads on a network of wires, are needed to intercept Raytheon's beam. In the model helicopter demonstrated last week, they feed direct current at about 100 volts to a small motor taken from an electric drill. The beam of 2,450-megacycle microwaves starts out with three kilowatts of power; the diode antenna turns it into electricity with an efficiency of about...
...apparently people with similar tastes in Presidential candidates also have similar tastes in motor vehicles. Four-fifths of the cars with Johnson bumper stickers were of a shiny, primary red, white or blue, with powder blue also very popular...
...without at least one Page One local story, managed to stay properly dressed all week. On a front page already jammed with developments in the Jenkins case and the latest word from Moscow, the Globe still found room to report that the wife of the new Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles did not have a driver's license...
...companies now churn out a confusion of products-bottle caps, plastic containers and paper cartons among them-although cans still account for more than half their sales. Continental is about to open two new plants to make plastic bags, has just come out with a new plastic motor-oil "can"-the fourth switch in its oilcan materials in as many years. American has just introduced tiny aerosol tubes that contain a seven-day supply of such items as hair spray and shaving cream for travelers, is spinning out a line of two-tone scented toilet tissue and conducting a campaign...
...time clocks. Demands for changes in grievance procedures, shift preferences and local seniority rights came in by the hundreds. If some U.A.W. locals had their way, the company-paid union committeemen in the plants would get quite a few extra amenities from G.M.: reserved spaces in the parking lots, motor scooters for buzzing around the production lines, and most important, more time off to do union business...