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...reached up among the rows of bottles and picked a rarely used mixture called mercaptan l-phenyl-5-mercaptotetrazole. When he swabbed the mixture on the film and then developed it, recalls Blake, "it was like going to the race track and hitting the daily double." The payoff: a major advance in photography...
...investors had good reason to rejoice. General Motors Corp., reporting record nine-month profits of $1.36 billion on alltime sales of $13 billion, voted a year-end extra dividend of $2 a share. With higher dividends for the first three quarters, that will raise G.M.'s big payoff from $4 a share last year to $4.45 this year, and give some 250,000 shareholders enough for a down payment on a new Chevy or even a '65 Cadillac. While G.M.'s calculated munificence will reverberate throughout the economy, the biggest individual beneficiaries will be five elderly...
...Royal Weekend." All details of the satellite safari are, of course, handled by state-run tourist agencies. The payoff comes from "shooting fees"-each type of game bird or animal is assigned a price tag, which varies according to size, age and trophy value. At the end of a shoot, the tourist bureau tots up the value of game shot, and the hunter forks over. In the Koprivnica area of Yugoslavia last spring, a Düsseldorf status seeker shelled out $12,500 for a 660-lb. European brown bear. That was just a warmup; Koprivnica gamekeepers are carefully pampering...
...physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences called his achievement a triumph of "quantum electronics," which was another way of saying that Townes's work had pointed the way toward masers (an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). The other half of the $53,000 payoff went...
Still a bigger payoff could lie ahead...