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...size of a newspaper page, inscribed with delicate characters. The second is roughly the size of a sheet of typewriter paper, with its message stenciled or printed for mass distribution. The third is the chuantan, or bill poster, each of which features a single, yard-high character. Enough pages strung together make poster headlines so large that even a simple acid message, such as "Liu Shao-chi is the Khrushchev of China," requires ten yards of wall space...
...been dug in for a month. Three platoons of the 1st Cavalry were on duty defending the twelve big guns and their crews. Under cover of evening rain, elements of North Viet Nam's 22nd Regiment slithered up the hill, snipping the detonating wires of Claymore mines strung round the camp, and neutralizing trip flares. They ran their field-telephone wires to within 15 ft. of the U.S. perimeter...
...because of a surveyor's faulty maps, the arbitrated border was inexactly placed, and regardless of the land's lack of value, both countries heatedly denounced the boundary. For years objections flew back and forth, but it was all fairly harmless until 1963, when Argentine gendarmes suddenly strung up a barbed-wire fence where they thought the border should be. The Chileans reacted with predictable enthusiasm. The Argentine embassy in Santiago was stoned, Argentine flags were burned, and the national police went on full alert. There was even talk of war, but cooler heads prevailed, and once again...
Perry and his students use only rudimentary devices to listen in on satellites: a 24-ft. dipole antenna strung between two school buildings, a $70 war-surplus radio receiver, a surplus radio-frequency-signal generator, a tape recorder, a small world globe and a desk calculator. To produce an audible tone from the 20-megacycle Cosmos telemetry picked up by their receiver, they combine it with the output of the signal generator...
...Love. When he is not playing adman, businessman, referee and editor, Cerf devotes a good part of his time to keeping his authors happy. Fortunately, he enjoys it, even when his high-strung writers curl into knots. He likes to tell about the time that Sinclair Lewis spent a night at the Cerf apartment. "He had dinner," Cerf recalls, "and we were all sitting at the table. Then Bill Faulkner called up and said he was in town. I told Lewis and asked him, could Bill come over? Lewis said, 'Certainly not. This is my night!' Then...