Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good as Gold and what could be better? A new perhaps comedy written by John Patrick. Roddy Mcdowell, Paul Ford, Zero Mostel, and a carrot seem to be starred. Opens tonight at the Schubert...
Deep-Frozen Amplifier. Some theoretical physicists have no visible connection with practicality, but others who are just as erudite hope that "hardware" will eventually grow out of their bold thinking. Professor Malcolm W. Strandberg of M.I.T. bases his reasoning on the weird idea of temperatures below absolute zero. Such temperatures do not exist in the ordinary, tangible sense, but they help Dr. Strandberg think about phenomena strongly affected by temperature...
Theoretical studies told him that a speck of the proper kind of crystal, held in a magnetic field at a temperature close to absolute zero, should work as an almost noiseless amplifier. Naming the unborn device the Versitron, Dr. Strandberg predicted extraordinary powers for it. In electronic communication, the power of the transmitter might be cut to one-thousandth. The telescopes of radio astronomy might become so sensitive that astronomers would have to spend years digesting the records of a short observing period. No Versitron has been built, but Bell Telephone Laboratories, guided mainly by Dr. Strandberg's theories...
...cliffs of fiction, creep up on reality in their rope-soled shoes and knock it out of commission with those knuckle-dusters. In the van of these shock troops is British Novelist Alistair MacLean, who in H.M.S. Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956) showed his ability to zero in with a battery of heavy cliches, fieldstrip and assemble a character in the dark, and tell an exciting story. MacLean displays the same talents in his current operation, dealing with the eastern Mediterranean in mid-World...
...action when he jumped four Avenger torpedo planes, barely made it back to Rabaul. He lost an eye in the battle, and his description of how he was operated on without anesthesia is bloodcurdling. Sakai fought again, but soon learned that a half-blind fighter pilot in an outdated Zero was no match for the new planes and pilots pouring from...