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Theoretical studies told him that a speck of the proper kind of crystal, held in a magnetic field at a temperature close to absolute zero, should work as an almost noiseless amplifier. Naming the unborn device the Versitron, Dr. Strandberg predicted extraordinary powers for it. In electronic communication, the power of the transmitter might be cut to one-thousandth. The telescopes of radio astronomy might become so sensitive that astronomers would have to spend years digesting the records of a short observing period. No Versitron has been built, but Bell Telephone Laboratories, guided mainly by Dr. Strandberg's theories...
Longtime Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a Harlem minister and one of three Negroes in the U.S. House of Representatives,* skillfully cadged a cigarette from Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty one afternoon last week, flecked a speck of dust from his faultlessly tailored flannels and turned to face the assembled White House reporters. He had just come from a conference with President Eisen hower, and he had something to report: this year he likes...
...color sets would be in operation by mid-1956. As of last week, not more than 75,000 color receivers were in use (there are about 40 million black-and-white sets). Compared to black-and-white sales of 7,200.000 this year, color sales are scarcely a speck on the nation's TV screen. At best, the industry does not expect to sell more than 250,000 color sets by year's end. In fact, one big manufacturer estimates the total at closer...
...fierce, intelligent Falcons, the Air Force's air-to-air missiles. The Falcon's tiny gyros, bearings and electronic components must be manufactured with a super-watchmaker's precision. The job is done in a great, windowless factory on the desert outside Tucson, Ariz. No speck of dust can be tolerated. The air is changed by fans and filters every nine minutes, and positive air pressure is maintained inside the building so that any air leakage will be outward, not inward. Engineers in the drafting rooms are forbidden to tear paper or use pencil erasers (both make...
...Speck of Humanity. The overflow crowd in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall burst into applause when Violinist Oistrakh stepped from the wings. Then he and his longtime accompanist, Vladimir Yampolsky, began Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 12, No. 1. The whole first movement went by, muddled by Carnegie's overrated acoustics -or because of a debutant's jitters-before Oistrakh began to project the full voltage of his enormous musicianship...