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...campaign of "sophisticated muckraking"-his term for controversial journalism-that gained the Post well-publicized libel suits but few new followers. As to advertising, the Post, which accounts for two-thirds of Curtis' magazine revenue, has not fared well either. Since 1962, its annual advertising revenue has shrunk by some...
...apartment setting and small cast both lend themselves easily to recording. Montgomery Clift is the warehouse "Shakespeare," and Julie Harris plays the gentle keeper of the glass menagerie. Jessica Tandy does creditably as the genteel chatterbox mother, but the role created by Laurette Taylor seems to have shrunk. And David Wayne sounds too grandfatherly as the Gentleman Caller. Nonetheless, their overall performances recapture the poignancy of the 19-year-old play that was Williams' first success...
...different coils do different jobs. When the end of a metal tube is inserted into the doughnut-shaped coil, it can be shrunk tightly around any insert such as a plug or a threaded fitting. To expand a metal tube, a cylindrical coil is pushed inside it. A flick of the switch, and the tube expands to bind itself solidly to whatever surrounds it. To stamp a flat piece of metal with a pattern, a trademark of elaborate lettering, the metal is placed between a flat coil and a die. When the coil is activated, the opposing magnetic field...
...cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, were originally set at an ominous eight minutes before midnight. After the Russians exploded their first H-bomb, Bulletin time read two minutes before the hour of doom. Today the clock is still on Bulletin's cover, but it has shrunk to an inconspicuous size, and registers a relatively unfrightening 11:48. The minutes that, in the editors' view the world has gained, measure a strange triumph for the magazine. Now that there is less concern about Armageddon and less shock value to the power of the atom, the clock...
...whole university is no longer a place for on-the-field training. The football schedule has been cut and athletic scholarships shrunk. Says Athletic Director Paul Stagg, Alonzo's son: "I'm riding a very thin line at present...