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...Then passengers heard a muffled pop-pop. Using his special low-power pistol, the Israeli agent had shot the Arab gunman, but the steward was critically wounded in the stomach. The 142 passengers and crew members may well have been saved from death or serious injury by a malfunctioning fuse on a grenade, which was found as the plane was making an emergency landing in London. For unknown reasons, it had failed to explode. Leila, unsuccessful in her attempt to blow up the plane and herself, was placed under British detention...
French industry is beginning to agree In a recent test for an electronics manufacturer, the furnace fused several tons of bauxite and ceramics to produce high-voltage insulators of unmatched purity The oven could easily fuse other highly heat-resistant materials: quartz crystals for radio transmitters, corundum for industrial grinding stones and zircon parts for nuclear reactors. It could also be used in experiments to develop new space-age alloys, such as special tungsten or cobalt steels, and even materials to withstand the searing heat of a nuclear blast...
...catchy singer-as big-band leaders go, that is. But what really enabled Woody Herman to climb to the top 30 years ago and stay there was two quite different talents: a high sense of musical style and a genius for leadership. He had a rare ability to fuse a collection of raw young musicians into a polished and pulsating band. He could also yield to the prevailing pop taste without losing a certain acerbic jazzy quality all his own. Today Woody is as much the debonair man of the times as ever. As he puts...
Since coming north, the varsity nine has won only 5 of 11 games, dropping four one-run decisions. The team's major failing has been its inability to fuse strong pitching and hitting performances...
THERE IS THE danger in experimental rock music of going too far; of trying to fuse too many different sounds or trying to incorporate too many independent effects. The inevitable result of over-stepping this peculiarly defined boundary is an abundance of noise, and a paucity of music. The many accomplishments of Traffic, for instance, were greatly obscured by the group's stubborn determination to embody special effects in its music...