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...China's Yunnan province, then slowed by silt and sewage on its 1,600-mile run to the South China Sea, is the principal means of transportation and is known as "the soul of Laos." In normal times, the principal exports are illegal opium and a little tin, but in 1960, the main export was words - the $300,000 charged at the cable office to newsmen covering...
Thin Core. In 1954 Bell Labs found that a compound of niobium and tin becomes superconductive at the comparatively high temperature of 18°K (-428°F.).† Later work hinted that the compound might keep its superconductivity in strong magnetic fields. Since it is extremely brittle and cannot be drawn into wires, it was put on the shelf for a while, but eventually Bell Lab scientists patiently learned how to make a tube out of pure niobium, fill it with a mixture of powdered niobium and tin, draw it down to a wire, then heat it to make...
...blased pre-match ratings, West lost two of the first three games and fell behind 12-9 in the final before turning on the late spree that won the match. He took five straight points to pick up a 14-12 lead, and then dumped a shot into the tin to make the score 14-13, but won on the next point...
Three of the nine matches went to five games--Lake's, Nelson's and Bob Schwartsman's at seven. Down 2 to 1 in games, Schwartsman rallied to a 10-10 tie in the final game before slipping behind, 13-10. Three shots into the tin by Yale's Fred Smith made the score 13 all, but Smith took all five of the deciding "overtime" points...
With no ball to shoot, young Oscar used to shy tin cans at the basket. When he was eight, he got a small ball that he would solemnly wash with soap and water every night. Not until he was eleven did he get his first full-sized ball, the discard of one of the families for whom his mother was then working as a domestic...