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...insatiable appetite of Western Europeans for television has made one major contribution to a united Europe. Electronics, respecting no borders, has spawned a loose-knit TV network that links-through a system of coaxial cables and microwave relays-all the non-Communist countries of Europe except Spain, Portugal, Norway and Finland...
Third, in smaller countries, students feel closer to their government, and a close-knit intellectual elite of student makes united action easier and increases interest...
...removed, and Kay was never able to talk again. Walter saw no reason to change any of their plans. But his father stormily forbade the marriage. "She's the same girl I fell in love with," insisted Walter. And so they were married, and have raised a close-knit family of two children-Terry, 23, an attractive, sad-eyed daughter, and Peter, 20, a husky, quiet...
Water Flight. Last summer the committee (backed in part by the National Science Foundation) called in some 100 physicists, science writers and high school teachers, turned out an integrated text supplemented by ingenious do-it-yourself equipment (TIME, July 29). Throughout, the committee tightly knit together its subject material; e.g., wave action is presented early in the course, is later used as a common denominator to connect such ostensibly different subjects as light, sound, atomic structure. Concentrating on basic principles, the course even treats as broad a subject as heat in its relationship to kinetic theory and to the conservation...
Money to Burn. The close-knit, tight-budgeted Army society of Fort Leavenworth is irritated that Ramfis "doesn't mingle" and "has money to burn." Upon arrival in Kansas City, he. opened bank accounts totaling $1,000,000. When he wants leave from school, the Dominican embassy in Washington arranges it; e.g., this weekend he headed south for a few days at New Orleans. Next week he is throwing a big party at Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, to which 200 of the area's best names have been invited. His classmates, many of them combat veterans...