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...would be costly and undoubtedly irksome. Even so, the point has come when they are essential. The frontier is gone, and its folkways cannot reasonably be condoned in a dense, tension-filled urban society. The time has long passed when a firearm can be allowed to serve as an instrument of individual justice?as it too often is even today...
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, LL.D., the Shahanshah of Iran. A 20th-century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
Such uses of liquid crystals' electro-optical potential could be applied soon to a whole new generation of sports scoreboards, traffic-control signs, stock-market tickers, and instrument panels in cars and aircraft. Besides drawing very little power, the devices would work perfectly well in ordinary daylight, since liquid crystals reflect external light rather than produce their own. In the more distant future is a liquid-crystal TV screen. The entire television set, say the RCA researchers, not only would be as thin as a book, but could be watched even in the glaring light of a sun-drenched...
President Pusey cited the Shah of Iran as "A twentieth century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
...National Instrument. The airline literally came out of the underground. Between scheduled flights to European capitals in the early years, its secondhand, U.S.-built C46 Commandos and Skymasters used to be outfitted with Cuban colors and repainted "Near East Airlines" overnight in order to evacuate 140,000 stranded Jews from Arab lands. More recently, during last summer's short but savage war, 60% of El Al crews were mobilized, while the rest moved military cargoes from Europe to Israel. "El Al is not only a national airline," explains President Ben-Ari, a scarred veteran of the 1948 Israeli-Arab...