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...Israelis lit their first candles celebrating the traditional festival of lights (Hanukkah) last week, the government decreed a national dimout. Reason: a fuel shortage that was one indirect consequence of Israel's seven-day victory over Egypt. In homes, hotels and hospitals only one 60-watt light bulb was permitted to burn in any room, and families were restricted to a maximum of 60 kw-h per month. Housewives boned up on how much power each appliance consumed (example: a washing machine uses up one kw-h in 30 minutes), and pinned up self-rationing lists in their kitchens...
...clock one morning last week the bulb-nosed shape of Her Majesty's Telegraph Ship Monarch, world's largest cable-laying vessel, rode slowly into Random Sound off Clarenville on the east coast of Newfoundland and began a new era in communications. After 30 years of planning, seven months of steaming, Monarch had paid out of her massive hold 4,900 miles of copper-cored, steel-armored, polyethylene-insulated 1¾-in. cable, and with the splice at Clarenville, completed the first underwater telephone cable linking America and Europe. Now, for the first time in history, voices could...
...novocained tooth? Does a Chinese feel pain less than an Occidental? Probably not, according to Dr. James D. Hardy, who (with Dr. Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell) pioneered in measuring pain on a "dolorimeter" at New York Hospital. Using a lens to focus the heat from an electric bulb onto a blackened area of skin, Dr. Hardy has compared the "pain thresholds" of whites, Alaskan Indians and Eskimos. The Eskimos' readings were a bit blurred because of language difficulties, but all three racial groups tested said "Ouch!" or its equivalent at the same amount of heat, i.e., when...
...place. This creates a maintenance problem for which the Russians aren't prepared." Materials also looked bad, by American standards. "Paint rubs off easily, so we never walked close to walls. Water pipes get rusty, and wires are too narrow-gauge to light more than a 40-watt bulb...
Robert Cummings' mother was an ordained minister, and back in the family home in Joplin, Mo., she gave him a short sermon that he has never forgotten. Said she: "Your mind is like a light bulb. It's up to you whether you use it like a 60-watt bulb or make it shine as bright as a 1,000-watter." She did not protest when Cummings decided to look for a socket on the Great White...