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...their new gadget, called a maser. from which the light came, will lead to astonishing things. The waves of red light moved exactly in step; other light is helter-skelter. The waves kept to the same razor-edged frequency; other light is a mixture of frequencies. They formed a slender pencil beam that hardly spread out at all. If they had marched to the moon-240,000 miles-they would have covered less than one twenty-fifth of its face...
...tense. Before it began. Attorney General William Rogers, Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Walsh and Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin-who are automatically members of the A.B.A. House of Delegates but rarely vote -slipped into their seats to underscore the Eisenhower Administration's concern over the outcome. By a slender 114 to 107, the A.B.A. stuck by its condemnation of the Connally Reservation...
...could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems to change its shape with the movement of the sun. In the Four Seasons Restaurant-as hedonistic as a Caesar's court-light ripples up and down aluminum loop window shades, plays upon the slender rods of the stair rails. Johnson calls his 1957 Boisson-nas house "my first non-Miesian house." Gone is the "flowing space" that made one room run into another: "Here you go from room to room with doors that close." While the International Stylists tried to make everything as light...
Planks on the Pedals. A slender (5 ft. 7 in., 121 lbs.) blonde, Jerrie demonstrated a point that many scientists have long believed: that women may be better equipped than men for existing in space. Reported Project Mercury's Lovelace: women have lower body mass, need significantly less oxygen and less food, hence may be able to go up in lighter capsules, or exist longer than men on the same supplies. Since women's reproductive organs are internally located, they should be able to tolerate higher radiation levels...
...with her: "Someone has to carry the money. She never does. She sings, as she says, for the dog biscuits, and I do the worrying." To help her relax, he took up yoga with her, and when she needs slimming, he goes on a diet too, although he is slender himself. His anonymity does not bother him in the least: "Debeljevic doesn't work very easily on the telephone with a stranger. It's easier to say yes, this is Mr. Delia Casa." ¶Mario Lanfranchi, 33, is an Italian TV producer, who four years...