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...door was posted a thin, erect policeman, looking like one of the tin soldiers off the toy shelf. He munched on a donut as he serenely contemplated the war of all against...
Mohibulla started slowly, whacking backhands into the tin as Hashim, three-time U.S. Open champ ran out the first two games. 15-10 and 15-12. But his shots warmed up in the third games forehands whizzed down the walls and into corners and nicks as if they had eyes. The younger man took the third game 15-13 and the fourth...
...fifth game went to 10-10 before Mohibulla pulled away. A lob that died in a back corner made it 13-11, a forehand drop shot gave him match point, and he won as Niederhoffer banged a shot into the tin...
...vital to vehicles in far-out space suffer from some far-out troubles. Cosmic radiation sickens their semiconductors. Vibrations and swift temperature changes cause fractures in all-important wires. Lubricants evaporate into the vacuum of space. But scientists are already working on some far-out cures. The latest: a tin-magnesium-aluminum alloy that can be made into wires that grow gap-bridging "whiskers" when broken and soon heal their own wounds...
Scientists are not sure what makes tin whiskers grow. They are slender crystals that seem to squirt out of the metal like toothpaste out of a tube. They grow fastest at 125° F., which is close to the temperature inside a home hi-fi set, but they grow well enough at average room temperature (70°), which is common in enclosed parts of spacecraft. Now a spacecraft with a faltering voice or an electronic brain that has become psychotic need not be given up for lost. Allowed a few days to grow, the little tin whiskers will make...