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...next bout, 182-lb. Slaymaker, fighting in blue-denim overalls and bare feet, faces Gerard Ranare, a younger (20) fighter of the same weight. Slaymaker, like McDoniels before him, is slowed by his prefight drinking; Ranare is pure concentration. He bloodies Slaymaker's nose with a right uppercut, and the fight is stopped by the referee. Slaymaker is helped to his feet, congratulates Ranare with a hug, and a forced smile...
...create what in effect is an electron freeway without these obstructing potholes, Bell Physicist Raymond Dingle and his colleagues built a semiconductor made of extremely thin, alternate layers of aluminum gallium arsenide (which they doped) and gallium arsenide (which they left pure). They reasoned that any electrons donated by the impurity would tend to migrate to the adjoining undoped gallium arsenide layer because of their tendency to seek what physicists call a lower energy state. Explains the Australian-born Dingle: "It's rather like the inclination of water to flow downhill." The new design worked. Isolated from the obstructing...
More and more Harvard professors regularly step outside the classroom, and into the not-so-pure would of politics and business. Candidates want them on the campaign trail. Senators want them at hearings. Presidents want them in their Cabinets. Journalists want them in print. Corporations want them in their board rooms. And during the pre-tenure stage of a professor's career, the "publish or perish" syndrome lifts them from the classroom into the library...
...singing laments in the street outside the courthouse - but his main interest is in the spoiled innocence of Violette. She is played with astonishing virtuosity by an extraordinary young French actress named Isabella Huppert. Violette's twisted mind seems to have been truly monstrous. The incest story was pure invention. She got her parents to swallow poison by telling them it was medicine. Yet something in her character was capable of generating sympathy. What we see in Actress Huppert's portrayal is a scrubbed and plain schoolgirl who escapes from the stuffiness of her parents' small apartment...
...case of Deak & Co., the big currency dealer. They are intended for tourists but can be bought by stay-at-homes too. Deak reports that its sales of foreign-currency traveler's checks have doubled in the past year and estimates that 25% of the purchases are pure speculation. Nor is it only a poor man's game. Executive Vice President Otto E. Roethenmund recalls one customer who bought between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of Swiss franc checks early in the summer - candidly telling the staff that he had no intention of going to Switzerland. Says...