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...hair-thin strands of optical glass as light carriers. Light entering an ordinary clear glass or plastic rod is reflected over and over again from the inner surface until it emerges again at the far end. This familiar principle causes the rod to act as a "light pipe." Dr. Kapany conceived the idea of bunching thousands of microscopic glass rods, each of which would transmit a single point of light. The bundle of points of light should form an image in much the same way the pattern of ink dots in a newspaper illustration forms a picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Picture Tube | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Before President Pusey asked White to lead Harvard's campaign for new capital, the small-eyed, pipe-smoking Long Island broker had not been really active in College affairs. He had never been an Overseer, although he did serve on visiting committees. From his temporary office in Massachusetts Hall, however, he will be able to call on an impressive list of prominent alumni, including vice chairman Devereux C. Josephs '15, Thomas S. Lamont '21, John L. Loeb '24, Ralph Lowell '12, and David Rockefeller '36. "Somewhat reluctantly," White says, he will have to make a large number of speeches during...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: Red-Hot Capitalist | 11/28/1956 | See Source »

...press DePinto too hard to get him back into the uniform which he has worn since 1936, when at the age of 12, Bill Tabler, then the drum major for the Band, saw him doing figure eights with a piece of pipe and promptly decided to teach him the fine art of twirling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twirler Comes Out of Retirement To Join Crimson Band Saturday | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co. (100% U.S. owned), which pumps 350,000 bbls. daily from Arabian-American Oil Co. fields to the Mediterranean, is still operating. But last week the Saudi Arabian government ordered Aramco to suspend all shipments to Britain and France, thus depriving them of some 35,000 bbls. daily by way of the pipeline, another 110,000 bbls. daily loaded on tankers in the Persian Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: How to Lick a Shortage | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Yang Kwei Fei. A Japanese interpretation of an old Chinese legend, as slow but sometimes as beautiful as a pipe dream (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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