Word: raying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover assemblage completed, Scarfe was delighted to turn back to more familiar artistic tools and go to work on the cartoons that illustrate the story. Unlike Scarfe, Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, who wrote the cover story, figured he was all too familiar with TV commercials. One set glows constantly in his office; three others sound off steadily in his Manhattan apartment, to the delight of his six children. What Kennedy and Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum wanted was an expert appraisal of what spots should be concentrated on. That appraisal was supplied by Reporter Peter Borrelli and Researcher Sandra Burton after...
...word to describe the new device when scientists first learned how to build it. But there seemed to be no limit to its potential. The fierce pure light they were coaxing out of synthetic crystals was so powerful that the military believed its long-sought super-weapon-a death ray-might finally become a reality. Applications in medicine and in industry seemed limited only by the human imagination...
American Pinpoints. Unlike ordinary "white" light from an incandescent bulb, which is a mixture of all colors, and thus of many different wave lengths traveling in divergent directions, laser light is what scientists call "coherent." It emerges from the rod in rays that are parallel; it is all of the same wave length, and it is all in phase or in step, each ray reinforcing the others, like oarsmen in a superbly trained crew...
...fingerprint expert testified that there were at least eleven points of similarity between the prints belonging to. Ray and those of the man held in London as Ramon George Sneyd. Ray's prints, said FBI Agent George Bonebrake, were on a rifle and telescopic sight abandoned in a store doorway near the shooting and also on binoculars wrapped with the weapon. Affidavits from merchants in Montgomery, Ala., and Birmingham pointed to Ray as the man who had purchased the binoculars, rifle and sight. "The tragic death of Dr. King was the working of the single hand of this...
Defense attorneys are seeking a loophole in the 1931 extradition treaty between the U.S. and Britain that bars surrendering persons accused of political crimes. And while the U.S. expects to wind up its case against Ray this week even if an extradition order is granted, appeals could delay his return for weeks...