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Raquel Welch's surprisingly pleasant performance is a good example. As a sex symbol Welch was never very sensual because there was something awkward and cold-blooded about her. But the movies she played in never acknowledged this, and she didn't either. She didn't transmit the intelligence of a Jane Fonda, who showed in her eyes that she half-knew she was exploiting and being exploited, and kept flashing a curious dignity above the demeaning roles. But Welch was in on the cheat. Predatory, she'd wriggle up out of the water, reptilian and sleek, looking like...
...legal, because gambling is legitimate in Las Vegas. When the line is official, though, spotters congregated at Churchill Downs scramble to flash the figures to their bookie bosses across the U.S., usually through a network of pay phones. At that point, because it is a federal offense to transmit gambling information across state lines, professional football betting becomes the nation's most prominent interstate illegality...
...functional units of the brain (glia, scientists believe, are largely "filler"), are connected to each other by means of long filaments, or dendrites, and form the body's nerve network. These cells receive sensory impulses, process the myriad bits of information pouring into the brain each moment, and transmit the brain's messages out to the various parts of the body, causing such reactions as the contracting and relaxing of muscles...
Lighted Blip. Technology's beachheads have been made at the two major U.S. wire services, the Associated Press and United Press International. With the prospect of newspaper automation clearly in front of them, A.P. and U.P.I. several years ago began investigating the use of computers to transmit stories. A.P. eventually chose a system developed by Hendrix Electronics Inc. of Londonderry, N.H.; U.P.I, selected a similar method using equipment produced by the Harris-Intertype Corp. of Cleveland. The major innovation in both is the use of a modified cathode-ray-tube device (CRT), which combines a television screen...
Though some reporters and desk-men complain about adjustment problems, News executives are certain that their investment will pay off in increased efficiency and better distribution. Once stories are edited in the newsroom, computers transmit them to the printing plant, set type photographically at 300 lines a minute and partially control the operation of six new three-story-high presses. The changes mean that late-breaking stories can get into the paper 15 minutes before press time, as compared with the hour required previously...