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...aluminum-coated, plastic record, stamped from a master disc that has been etched by a laser beam, is covered with billions of microscopic pits. Variations in pit size encode the video and sound messages. For playback, a sharply focused beam from a low-power (one-thousandth of a watt) helium-neon laser scans the disc as it whirls around at 1,800 r.p.m. The laser beam flickers as it is reflected from the record's pocked surface, and the flickering is detected by a photosensitive cell, like that used in photographic exposure meters, which in turn converts it into...
...Taser, powered by six rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, fires two barbs attached to 18 feet of fine wire. When the barbs hit a human, a current that can build up to a three-watt, 50,000-volt charge leaps through the closed circuit. The shock instantly disrupts the victim's nervous system, his eyes close, and he slumps to the floor jerking spasmodically. When the current is turned off, muscular control returns immediately, but a mild state of shock persists...
TIME'S Chicago bureau chief, Benjamin Gate, recently monitored highways in his area with a rented 4-watt set. He reports: "Motorists have discovered that instead of being isolated in a car, listening to some dreary radio station, CB helps them stay alert and puts them in touch with scores of other drivers. A typical transmission we picked up in Illinois went like this: 'Breaker 10 [the emergency frequency], this is Buffalo Bill in an 18-wheeler rolling by Mile 78 on 1-90 North. Got an overturned camper here, lots of smokeys [police] in the area...
...then, is Tuscola's tiny WITT plunging into that high-priced circle? Last week, for the first time, all-news radio was brought within the means of every 50-watt hymn-and-hog-price station in the nation. NBC, which has been taking losses since 1973 on its network radio broadcasts, is trying to reverse those fortunes with a round-the-clock, syndicated all-news package. News and Information Service, as the venture is called, originates from the old Monitor studio in Rockefeller Center and is fed live over telephone lines to subscribing stations for 50 minutes of every...
...Crossman, a former Oxford don and journalist (he edited The New Statesman from 1970 to 1972) who died last spring, was devilishly unflattering in many of his reminiscences of Wilson, Britain's all-powerful civil service and even Queen Elizabeth. Financial Times Political Editor David Watt called the volume "the most important book about British politics to have been written in years," but civil servants in the office that serves the Cabinet found Cross-man's wealth of detail on how British government works to be profoundly disturbing. With Wilson's approval, they moved in effect...