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...open concubinage. Italian Author Gabriella Barca, in her book / Separati (The Separated Ones), estimates that at least 800,000 Italians live quite publicly with second "wives" and families. The church, however, is adamantly opposed to a pending Italian divorce bill and even briefly took to Vatican Radio to beam its protest to the Italian people. Yet the Vatican's own reforms-even such enlightened measures as the new American regulations-will be crippled by a woeful lack of skilled manpower. One fairly optimistic Vatican canon lawyer estimates that only 18 of the 160 U.S. dioceses have an adequate tribunal...
...members of New York's brawniest unions marched and shouted, milled and sang in a massive display of gleeful patriotism and muscular pride. Basking in the ticker-tape approval of cheering office workers crowding high windows in buildings many of DAVID BURNETT them had helped erect beam by beam and load by load, the hardhatted construction workers, teamsters and longshoremen rallied through the streets of Lower Manhattan in probably the biggest pro-Government rally since the Viet Nam War began. With a crude and forceful clarity, they signaled their support of President Nixon's policies in Southeast Asia...
...late to focus incoherent beam...
...will be useful in computers. Because its crystal orientation is determined by the last applied voltage, it is ideal for memory storage; its light-transmitting qualities can be used for computer read-outs and displays. Placed in front of a laser, the ceramic filter can block off the laser beam or let it through, depending on the amount of voltage applied. It can control the laser beam, much as a telegrapher's key modulates a radio wave, thus transmitting information...
...seven black radio stations across America, but 429 stations beam to the black community. I expect for us to be controlling and owning more than 100 of those stations. Blacks have no television stations, which means we're cut off from communications there...