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Tucked away in the Great Blue Hill weather bureau's long disused kite-room is the station's 3 kilowatt transmitter, powerful enough to produce 20,000 watts of effective radiated power. This was a gift from Professor E.H. Armstrong of Columbia, inventor of the electronic circuit that made FM a reality. From its 630 foot-high platform, this power plant will make possible strong high-quality signals within a 65 mile radius, an area of some one and one third million families...
...within its artful unity of theme and mood, The River has its trying moments, the film also offers some exceptionally rewarding ones-ranging from the stylized interlude of an ancient Indian fable, with Radha as its gracefully dancing heroine, to a brief, charming scene in which a kite cavorts crazily in a bright blue sky to the perfectly timed accompaniment of a native drum and pipe...
...foreign technicians Iran had so confidently expected when it started its expropriation spree were nowhere in sight. The Dutch, appealed to for assistance, told Iran to go fly a kite. Some Italian technicians tried to make a deal, but it came to nothing. Instead of helping Teheran, U.S. oil companies, assisted by Washington's suspension of antitrust laws, began pooling their resources, prepared to make oil deliveries to Iranian's old customers...
Nobody was sure of Bed Check Charlie's ancestry. Some Air Force officers thought he might be a Russian-built PO2 single-engined training biplane. To G.I.s the canvas-covered,wire-strutted plane looked like a cross between a box kite and an orange crate. They had named him Bed Check in the first place because at Pyongyang last fall, they used to stay awake nights until he came buzzing over from behind the enemy lines, dropped a bomb, a sack of bolts or nails, or maybe fired a few shots from a pistol and then headed for home...
...cockpit, struggling to keep his frail craft from flipping over in the 70-mile-an-hour gale that howled over the peak. "That plane was-flying tied down," he added. "If those tie ropes had been longer, I'd have soared up like a kite...