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...teams fumbled four times in the first six minutes of play, and the Crimson got a break when Mark Steiner recovered a stray pitchout from Joe Massey to tailback Don Martin...
With that, The Owl and the Pussycat sets out on a sea of hysteria, and their cramped tub somehow manages to stay afloat. Felix is the owl, a pedantic would-be writer who works in a Fifth Avenue bookstore. Doris is the pussycat, a randy stray from New York's back alleys who has been in two television commercials, a movie entitled Cycle Sluts, and countless beds. By the time she gets through screaming at Felix, they are both evicted-Felix wearing a skeleton suit to frighten Doris out of the hiccups, Doris clad in her best crotch-length...
...substances as manganese salts. Later, Néel discovered still another form of magnetism called ferrimagnetism, in which some of the spins are in opposite directions. Overall, however, there is a preponderance in one direction, thus producing an observable field. Because ferrimagnetic substances are electrically nonconducting-therefore immune to stray currents-they have proved highly useful material for the coating of magnetic tape, computer memory cores and other important Electronic Age components...
...terms of sheer frustration, the greatest sufferers have probably been astronomers using radio telescopes to scan the heavens. Stray terrestrial signals at frequencies similar to those being detected are a constant nuisance. It was not until the powerful radar at New York's Kennedy Airport was properly tuned that Bell Labs scientists in New Jersey were able to detect background radiation-mysterious microwave emissions from deep space, which some theorists think are the remnants of the "big bang" that created the universe...
...Muffling stray interference will be a more difficult job. Most of the new electronic gadgetry-color TV sets, arc welders, diathermy machines-are potential electromagnetic polluters. As the Government's watchdog over the air waves, the Federal Communications Commission was recently authorized to take stiffer action against manufacturers of interference-causing equipment. But even though investigations of complaints have already been increased sharply, the FCC does not expect to achieve what engineers call electromagnetic compatibility very soon. "The smog will be with us for a long time," says one FCC official. "We'll have to suffer with...