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Rhythm of the Relay. The realistic approach is often a sound-man's nightmare. Up to five men are needed to handle the 300-odd sound effects on each show. Webb's trickiest piece of realism came when the script called for a long-distance phone call from Los Angeles to Fountain Green, Utah. "We actually placed the call and recorded it. We got all the line clicks of the trunk lines, the rhythm of the operators as they moved the call from one relay point to another. You can't fake stuff like the authentic...
Piles of mats in two corners of the room, Swedish ladders lining the side walls, and an overhanging ventilator in the South court have produced some of Fradd Ball's trickiest shots...
Plutonium is made in a chain-reacting pile, the trickiest, most hair-raising item of industrial equipment. Every interior detail of a pile must be right from the start; after the pile has been in operation, its innards are too radioactive to be tinkered with. The controls must be perfect, too, or the pile will destroy itself with a bang...
Hope for the Backward. Genetics probably offers the Soviet authorities one of their trickiest methods of posing as a source of scientific light and hope. Western genetics, following Mendel and Morgan, teaches that the inherited characteristics of living organisms are largely controlled by genes passed down from parents to offspring. During sexual reproduction the genes are shuffled, but except in the case of accidental mutations they are not changed. Lysenko teaches that the form of an organism is determined by the environment in which it develops. He claims to have modified plant species merely by moving them around Russia. (Western...
Nevertheless, things are tough. The Bruins have already proved that they possess an exasperatingly good goalie in Don Whiston--he made 48 saves in last week's game--as well as one of the trickiest first lines this side of Dartmouth. Tony Malo and Johnny Casey have picked up considerably more than the fundamentals of the game back home in Canada, while their linemate Bobby Davidson is no slouch...