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Your first decision is to choose the width of ski most suitable for the type of skiing you intend to do and the condition of the snow where you will be skiing...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Switch to Cross-Country | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...clubs, knives and chains that have to be wrested away from them. For small troublemakers, Vineyard keeps a paddle handy. Explains one deacon blandly: "We ram respect and discipline down their throats." And more. First Baptist insists on short hair ("cut so that it is at least one finger-width above the eyebrows"). Primness also counts at the church's elementary and high schools and at its three-year-old, unaccredited Hyles-Anderson College, where a boy may not sit on a piano bench next to a girl, or touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Superchurch | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...freshman soccer team was badly hampered by the horrendous conditions and a narrow field in its 3-1 loss. The unusual dimensions stopped the booters from playing their normal offensive game of chipping out to the wings and taking advantage of the width of the field...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Frosh Football, Soccer Lose; Soggy Fields Aid Yale Cause | 11/22/1975 | See Source »

...only to guide a sapphire stylus over a series of irregularly spaced slots in the groove. The slots are so small (up to 84,000 per in.) that they must be etched into the master disc by an extremely fine, high-powered beam of electrons. Yet variations in the width and spacing of the slots contain all the information necessary to reproduce a program in color (with stereo sound if desired). As the record spins at 450 r.p.m., a metallic strip on the back of the stylus "reads" the constantly changing electrical capacitance -a measure of the capacity to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Video in the Round | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

...other poisons as ammunition. To illustrate his testimony, Colby handed a pistol to Committee Chairman Frank Church. Resembling a Colt .45 equipped with a fat telescopic sight, the gun fires a toxin-tipped dart, almost silently and accurately up to 250 ft. Moreover, the dart is so tiny-the width of a human hair and a quarter of an inch long-as to be almost indetectable, and the poison leaves no trace in a victim's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: Of Dart Guns and Poisons | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

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