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Since Louis Braille devised his raised-dot alphabet in 1829, there has been no other practical means for the blind to read. For 17-year-old Candy Linvill, blind since the age of three, Braille's system of dots posed little problem, but she was still confined to those books and publications that are issued in Braille. Now, because of an ingenious new device on loan from her father's laboratory, she is freed from that limitation...
...World War II, Russia's present leaders have encouraged it to open up the way for a renewed appreciation of Russia's past glories. During the summer, to the delight of Russian and foreign tourists alike, many of the old wooden churches and onion-domed cathedrals that dot the Soviet countryside were opened to the public. The result was an artistic revelation...
...verbal talent to bring off such an enterprise is nowhere to be found in Three Thirty Three. The editors have consistently let slip past their red pencils verbosity ("the University has long been cognizant of the fact that the issues involved transcend the sphere of economics"), turgid metaphor ("Girls dot the large lecture halls like raisins in raisin bread"), and embarrassing gaffes in tone (Kenny McBain's "I have never lost a certain fondness...
...statement to the Council, Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) said that he has consulted with officials of the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Brooke said that he learned that DOT officials are "now proceeding with a re-evaluation of the Inner Belt program and that until that study is completed [which will take more than a year] no decision will be taken on this controversial question...
...Rome's 1 Oth Legion officers, waters still ripple out of the otherwise lifeless ground. When Israeli armor appeared on June 7, 1967, Kallia's Arab defenders had vanished across the Jordan River, leaving buildings, installations and many vehicles intact. For a time, Kallia was merely another dot on Israeli military maps of the occupied territories. Then, just a year ago, the soldier-farmers of Nahal, an acronym in Hebrew meaning "pioneering fighting youth," were dispatched to Kallia. Their mission: to protect Kallia and its portion of the frontier facing Jordan-and to make the desert bloom...