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...eventually." An early backer of Dr. Gabriel Giannini, the noted physicist, Fairchild in 1946 bought into Giannini Controls of California, a manufacturer of transducers and other sensitive flight instruments. He now owns 9% of the company, which is growing at a 25% yearly rate under Fairchild-picked President Donald Putnam...
...tank, and then spit it out as a short but enormously powerful jolt of energy. And Zeus is dangerous, a fact well known to every one of the electricians who swarm over it. The least of Zeus's bolts could burn them to a crisp. When Dr. Tom Putnam, physicist in charge, gets ready to ask Zeus to hurl a trial thunderbolt, he takes elaborate precautions. First he locks the monster in its room. Then he starts the "permissive chain" on the control board...
...warning horn wails. Then comes a 30-second delay during which a trapped electrician could hit one of the nine handy scram switches and stop further action. Putnam presses a button, and direct current from a roomful of transformers and rectifier tubes flows into Zeus...
Last week Putnam was testing a single shelf containing 48 of Zeus's designed 4,032 capacitors. It fired, producing only a loud "blonk" as its energy discharged through a heavy aluminum cylinder called "the load" and dissipated as harmless magnetism...
...probably true that Western civilization could have muddled on without an autobiography of George Sanders; but the same might be said of the new precracked bottles of guaranteed-foaming nonchampagne for E-Z ship hunching. Uncorked this week by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the champagne in Actor Sanders' Memoirs of a Professional Cad ($3.50) is at least genuine, and it foams fairly often...