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Died. Harald T. Friis, 83, radio-communications pioneer whose work helped make possible, among other things, modern radio reception and microwave transmission; of a stroke; in Palo Alto, Calif. Born in Denmark, Friis became a leading research scientist with the Bell System, eventually holding 25 patents, including one for the famous horn-reflector antenna of microwave systems first used in satellite communication. Highly regarded as a teacher of other scientists, Friis also supervised the work of the late Karl Jansky, founder of radio astronomy...
...entered [the White House]and having twice or thrice rung a bell which nobody answered ... on the ground floor, as divers other gentlemen (mostly with their hats on, and their hands in their pockets) were doing very leisurely ... The greater portion of this assemblage . . . had no particular business there, that anybody knew of. A few were closely eyeing the movables, as if to make quite sure that President [John Tyler], who was far from popular, had not made away with any of the furniture, or sold the fixtures for his private benefit...
...been no evidence that tourists to the city this year have been disappointed. To begin with, Philadelphia is not closed, and in fact has huge traffic jams to prove it. So far this year, more than 1.5 million people have seen the No. 1 Bicentennial attraction, the Liberty Bell, which has been moved from its traditional place inside Independence Hall to a site opposite on Independence Mall. A surprising number of tourists are astonished to learn that the bell does not ring, but they get to touch it, exclaim over its famous crack and listen to a lecture that tells...
...When he flew into Los Angeles for a last harrumph just before the California primary, only a pitiful handful of diehards greeted him. Time had passed him by, but he liked to think that the other candidates had caught up with him. Wallace told TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell: "Listen to what even candidates like Church and the rest say about welfare and tax reform, busing and Big Government, the bureaucracy and wasteful foreign aid and crime in the streets." Does he plan to run for the Senate seat that Alabama's John Sparkman is expected to vacate...
...other hand, Barnet and Mueller fail to present their program systematically. They mix arguments from different theoretical perspectives eclectically, conflating, for example, Daniel Bell's claim that manual labor in the "post-industrial" U.S. is becoming progressively less important with Stanley Aronowitz's that the labor force is being generally proletarianized. The book jumps from general to particular in so haphazard a manner as to make it easier to find anecdotes about Harold Geneen's world vision or the loss of shoemaking jobs in Lynn than precise information about the importance of the global corporations in the U.S. economy...