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This girl is not fat, but perhaps ten pounds away from her ideal weight. Tomorrow she will feel terribly guilty, and skip breakfast and maybe lunch. She is not the least bit unique: almost every Cliffie recognizes the phrase "compulsive cater" with a shiver of aorror and embarrassment...
...fast-writing pen for oscillographs, developed by Stanford University Electrical Engineer Richard Sweet, uses a vibration hardly as violent as a shiver to write a permanent record of oscilloscope traces that have only been caught in the past by delicate and expensive motion picture film. Spewed through a tiny nozzle, the ink droplets pick up a charge from an electrode attached to an oscilloscope. Then they fall, at the rate of 100,000 a second, between two electrically charged plates and hit a rapidly moving roll of recording paper. Each drop carries an electric charge that mirrors the changing electrical...
...wild geese shiver in the moonlight...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, in a lecture this month to the Naval War College at Newport, R.I. Enthoven (rhymes with went rov-in') was certainly right about one thing: when he starts submitting defense policy to his dispassionate, cold analysis, generals explode and admirals shiver their timbers. For of all Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's famed Pentagon whiz kids, Enthoven, at 32, is by far the whizziest...
...Days at Peking. The year is 1900. In a dragon-encrusted ballroom reminiscent of the lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theater, David Niven, the British ambassador to Peking, is throwing a diplomatic ball to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. The music stops, and there is a shiver of terror: a brocaded sedan chair brings Prince Tuan, complete with jeweled-gold fingernail scabbards and about as welcome as Dr. Fu Manchu at a meeting of the A.M.A. Prince Tuan (ex-dancer Robert Helpmann) is the leader of the "Fists of Righteousness" (known as Boxers in the occidental press), those...