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...cable uses microwaves about 7½ cm. long, which are not affected by weather, static or most kinds of man-made interference. The waves move in straight lines and refuse to curve with the earth, so they cannot make Boston in one jump. The telephone people skip them from hilltop to hilltop...
...presidential motorcade along U.S. Highway 29, through the red Virginia farmland, past the old battleground of Bull Run. At every town, little flag-waving crowds gathered to watch him. Near Charlottesville, while 2,000 people assembled in front of the high-pillared porch of Thomas Jefferson's old hilltop home, Monticello, he delivered his Independence Day address (see col. 1). It was a happy, historical week...
...audience's judgment on the movie, as a movie. The only man in Siam capable of giving an absolute verdict on its accuracy was unable to attend. Just as the movie began, the Bangkok radio took the air to announce that death, after hovering long near his hilltop suburban home, had come at last to scholarly, slim, 84-year-old Prince Naris (pronounced Nar-ritt), 62nd child and last surviving son of the movie's hero, King Mongkut...
This story was making the rounds in Manila last week: the U.S. Army, discovering that a pipeline from a hilltop gasoline storage tank was being tapped, started running water through the pipes. Within a few hours every bus, jeep and taxi in Manila had sputtered to a stop...
Quito (pop. 160,000), wrinkled in a tight little Andean valley, gets its water from rivulets and springs in the mountains, has a fair supply only during the rainy season. But even when the clouds open, distribution pumps often break down. Hilltop houses generally have water only at night, if at all. On Quito streets Indian women carrying buckets in search of water are as familiar a sight as lottery-ticket vendors in Havana. Complained an indignant letter-writer in Quito's El Comercio: "In the morning the cook must take a streetcar to the hospital...