Word: mousetrap
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...strapped like a huge belly button to the chest of his suit, Nelson would gently bump the 5,000-lb. satellite's protruding trunnion pin (installed for just such a rescue). Three rubber-coated, spring-loaded jaws in Nelson's TPAD were supposed to snap like a mousetrap, firmly locking Max's trunnion into place...
Years later a Univac executive would lament, "It doesn't do much good to build a better mousetrap if the other guy selling mousetraps has five times as many salesmen." The Univac episode helped give rise to the belief that IBM's real strength is in selling while its technical prowess often lags. Says Kenneth Leavitt, president of CGX Corp., a Massachusetts-based maker of high-performance display terminals: "IBM tends to be a step behind in technology but very good at marketing...
Meanwhile, in the political and geographic center of London theater, the Old Guard holds forth with style and swagger. Early this month the bedroom farce No Sex, Please-We're British notched its 5,000th performance; Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is cadging tourists in its 31st year; Andrew Lloyd Webber still has three musicals running (Evita, Cats and Song and Dance), with a new show promised for the fall. Peter Ustinov has donned a peruke and a music-hall German accent to star in his own caustic comedy, Beethoven's Tenth. London's two major...
...detect a fugitive monopole, Cabrera used a kind of magnetic mousetrap, which was connected to a SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device). He turned a coil of niobium, a platinum-gray metallic element, into a superconductor of electricity by cooling it to within nine degrees of absolute zero (minus 460° F). Current thus moved through it without resistance, allowing the slightest twitch in the current's flow to be recorded. At 1:53 p.m. on Feb. 14, the magnetic flux in Cabrera's device jumped eight steps, exactly what was expected if a Dirac monopole passed through. Cabrera...
...everything in the books becomes an automatic hit. Chicago Mail Order Merchant Joseph Sugarman found few buyers for his $ 1,500 laser-beam mousetrap. But for products that do not sell out, there is always Grand Finale, a discount catalogue that specializes in marketing goods left over from other catalogues...