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...five years ago in their country, and just a year ago in the U.S. and Europe. One reason: the introduction of small receivers, no larger than paperback books, and sets that cost as little as $60. "It's astonishing how many people have picked up the short-wave habit," says George Berzins, a spokesman for the Voice of America. "We've noticed a big increase in audience, and so have most other broadcasters." (This audience does not include ham operators, who broadcast as well as receive; for the most part they listen to one another...
...NOTEBOOK--Cleary's habit of pounding on the boards behind the bench finally took its toll last night. One especially aggravating Harvard miscue cracked a pane of the brittle Forum glass, necessitating extensive repairs during the second period. The incident brings to mind a game at McHugh a few years ago when Harvard defenseman Jim Trainor slammed into the glass at extreme velocity and shattered shards all over the ice. That contest was held up a good half hour...
...associates in a Massachusetts firm called Animal Optics, Inc., are responsible for that ophthalmological advance. Wise had learned from his father, a California poultry farmer, that chickens with cataracts suffer reduced vision and also lose their tendency to peck one another to death, a lamentable chicken habit that can result in the destruction of up to 25% of. a tightly penned flock. In fact, the elder Wise had experimented with distorting lenses to reproduce the effects of cataracts and discovered that transparent colored lenses worked just as well...
...Neill also has the disconcerting habit of changing facial expression flamboyantly at every line he hears, particularly noticeable in O'Neill's many scenes with the exemplary Zabusky. The same heavyhandedness unhappily characterizes O'Neill's singing. His voice is rich and resonant but, like Sheldon's, somewhat stentorian under the circumstances...
...controversy continue, and the letters-diverse as they may be-all share a particular passion, not only for points of conscience and politics but for theater. They are like one of Brenton's Romans, who starts to address Julius Caesar, "I speak from the heart . . ." "A disgusting, fashionable habit," Caesar reminds him, an aside bound to cut any passionate British theatergoer right to the quick...