Word: stampeders
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To two generations of Americans, smallpox has been a minor inconvenience: you had to be vaccinated before traveling abroad. To people in Asia and Africa, it has been a scourge. As recently as 1967, it was endemic in 30 countries and claimed an estimated 2.5 million victims. Now, in one...
Among the most puzzling aspects of the assassination is the strange career of Lee Harvey Oswald. After defecting to the Soviet Union, betraying radar secrets, and attempting to renounce his American citizenship, Oswald had no trouble reentering the U.S. or obtaining a new passport. Welcomed back to the country by...
Can current television sets be equipped to play recorded programs that could be purchased and stored like so many hi-fi discs? Manufacturers have been competing for a decade to be first to provide a practical answer. Trouble is, both videotapes and films are too expensive to produce for the...
Philips-MCA has taken a different approach. Its aluminum-coated, plastic record, stamped from a master disc that has been etched by a laser beam, is covered with billions of microscopic pits. Variations in pit size encode the video and sound messages. For playback, a sharply focused beam from a...
Officers' Mess. Some of the opposition to Rogers is based on dissatisfaction with the way she ran the university last year. Critics charge that she acted too slowly in making needed appointments and did not communicate with the faculty. (Rogers can communicate well, however, when she wants to. Last...