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...back to our dull, humdrum lives again." Hardly. By some estimates, possibly exaggerated, more than 1,000,000 pilgrims have journeyed to the general's off-white marble grave, where he lies beside his daughter Anne. The people come with flowers and handmade crosses of Lorraine, plaques and crude placards reading "To our leader," "notre grand chef" "to our liberator," "notre grand général." They come in battered deux-chevaux, creaking farm wagons, sleek Citroëns, by chartered trains and buses. General Jacques Massu, who was once sacked for his split with De Gaulle over...
Practical Reality. Gabor's holograms were crude because his beam of filtered green light was not intense enough to produce a clear image. But in 1963, after the invention of the laser made available powerful single-frequency light waves that were precisely in phase. University of Michigan Physicists Emmett Leith and Juris Uptanieks made Gabor's holography a practical reality. Already used in displays, material testing, medical diagnosis and computer memory banks, holography has potential for 3-D movies and, some day, for television...
...earthwork at Boeing has hardly taken the company out of the skies. On the contrary, Boeing engineers are producing ever more spectacular aircraft designs, including one for a twelve-engine "brute lifter" three times the size of the 747 jet that could haul, for example, 8,000 bbl. of crude petroleum. Recent successes in aerospace sales accounted for almost all of the company's nine-month earnings of $18.2 million this year, up nearly $1,000,000 over the same period in 1970. But Boeing's new outlook may well provide a striking glimpse into the future...
Characteristic of this assumption was a segment from Time Magazine's article on Attica. The segment said that the more militant prisoners at Attica "passed around clandestine writings of their own; among them was a poem written by an unknown prisoner, crude but touching in its would-be heroic style." In an insert, Time printed the first stanza of this "would-be heroic" find...
...Maurice were first-rank Forster, it might have bridged this gap. As it is, for a book whose theme is liberation, it is a curiously willed performance. Forster for once displays a one-tract mind. He does not commit anything as crude as a case history, but he flogs the narrative along in a straight line largely unadorned by the surprises and ambiguities that enrich his other plots. Boy meets boy, boy loses boy, second boy meets girl and takes up "normal" life, first boy meets another boy and affirms homosexual values in the face of hostile society. A prim...