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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From his headquarters in North Korea, exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who adroitly juggled the perennially factious forces in Cambodia before his ouster in 1970, announced that he was launching a new effort to return his country to political neutrality. The Prince, who may be the only figure with enough universal appeal to unite the country, said that he was establishing a non-Communist guerrilla force as an alternative to both the Pol Pot and the Heng Samrin regimes...
...surface, Ohira's performance at the polls might have seemed respectable enough: his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) increased its popular vote from 42% to 44.6%. The party maintained its plurality in the 511-member lower house of the Diet by winning 248 seats, only one less than it had in the previous parliament; the L.D.P. stays in power because it has the assured support of ten independents, which will give it a voting majority of two. Moreover, Japan's second biggest party and the L.D.P. 's main opposition, the Socialists, captured only 107 seats, a loss...
...carry information in rays of light traveling through slender glass fibers rather than in electric currents moving through bulky cables. IBM's research budget this year will be $1.25 billion, and the company has become the first to master the mass production of a silicon memory chip small enough to pass through the eye of a needle yet able to store 64,000 bits of information. Bell & Howell's Frey maintains it is a myth that only small firms can be innovative, adding that only large corporations have the capital and the distribution network to take new products...
...modern life would be inconceivable. The phonograph, the movie camera, the microphone, the mimeograph, the stock ticker-they only begin the list. Though Alexander Graham Bell devised the first telephone transmitter and receiver, it was Edison who worked out a system of reproducing phone conversations over long distances loudly enough that they could be heard easily, and who may have been the first to shout "hello" into a telephone mouthpiece. His one discovery in basic science-the "Edison effect," the emission of electrons from a heated electric conductor-led eventually to the creation of the electronics industry. which has given...
...phonograph. It was a piece of serendipity; Edison had been trying to invent a device that would permit telephone messages to be sent over telegraph lines, and was astonished to discover that the apparatus could record his own voice. Partly because the phonograph came so easily, he distrusted it enough to fail to capitalize on its moneymaking potential. (Another reason was that he had poor hearing and no real appreciation of music, and did not realize what a bonanza could be reaped by recording melodies...