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Each of the studies shows the victim in exact scale, one inch to one foot, and they are accurate down to the smallest detail, even to the wool stockings...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: A Colloquium on Violent Death Brings 30 Detectives to Harvard | 12/6/1966 | See Source »

...working model, with miniature doors that open and shut, lights that go on and off, windows that go up and down. Each of the studies shows the victim and his surroundings in exact scale, one inch to the foot, and they are accurate down to the smallest detail, even to the wool stockings that Mrs. Lee knitted herself...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: A Colloquium on Violent Death Brings 30 Detectives to Harvard | 12/6/1966 | See Source »

...impact, mood and style. Book of Knowledge, printed in four-color offset, easily excels the others in use of bright, clear pictures, and its large type and short sentences make it brisk and readable. It approaches many major subjects with an enticing narrative open ing. World Book uses the smallest type of the four, which could bother younger students, but opens up its pages with skillful use of tables, sketches and boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning: Encyclopedias for Kids | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...pride extends to the Sociology department he headed at Harvard. It was one of the smallest in the country, he points out, but during his 12 years as chairman it turned out at least one-third of the leaders of contemporary American sociology...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: Pitirim A. Sorokin | 11/5/1966 | See Source »

Another two years of development will be required, Ford estimates, to produce sodium-sulphur batteries large enough to power even the smallest compact cars. Such batteries would weigh about 300 lbs., produce about 10 kw. of power, and store 15 times as much energy as lead-acid batteries. Equipped with the new batteries, two prototype electric cars that Ford is now building in England are designed to travel 150 miles at 40 m.p.h. They will weigh 1,100 lbs. and carry two adults and two children. Because electric cars require no transmission, radiator, fuel tank, carburetor, fuel pump, exhaust pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Back to the Electrics | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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