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Last week cables came from Aden to Cairo newspapers saying: "Our father Imam Yahya Hamid el Din has passed away. Ahmed el Waziry has been elected Imam and I am President of the Council." They were signed by Ibrahim. The Arab world wondered whether the Sword of Truth was sure...
Suddenly, like a taut fiddle string, one of the cables snapped. The bridge floor flipped sideways, sent a stream of men, women & children cascading into the river. A few lucky ones at the bridge ends saved themselves. A few more scrambled out of the water. But most were killed on...
To the people of the tiny Colombian village of Pauna, snuggling in the Andean foothills a day's motor drive from Bogotá, the new bridge over the deep, swift Río Minero had seemed as permanent and reassuring as Thornton Wilder's bridge of San Luis...
Company officials candidly said that l.T. & T. had made mistakes in running Federal. Its experience had been largely in communications (All America Cables & Radio, Inc., Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., etc.). But l.T. & T. was getting production know-how and expanding its U.S. enterprises (principally Federal Telephone & Radio) to make up...
The cables have already been laid and the tuning units have been hooked onto the University power lines by maintenance workers. The only remaining job will be to get the right proportion of volume for each of these units.