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Another episode, played by professional actors, dramatizes matrimonial alienation. A scene shows a wife in the kitchen, husband in the living room, thinking their separate thoughts. She: "This must be the three millionth time I've washed this dish. John, tell me to break it. Ask me to sit next to you for a while." He: "Jane, forget that silly dish. Come and sit with me and tell me that all my fears are untrue." But neither utters a word. "Contact can hurt," concludes Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with...
...angstrom is equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimeter and is used to measure the length of light waves. The word has nothing to do with Angst, but pays tribute to Pioneer Spectroscopist Anders Angstrom...
...best available statistics, Yaa was the 25 millionth West African to be vaccinated against smallpox in the past twelve months. When the U.S. AID-financed program is completed in 31 years, it is expected that 110 million people in Ghana and 18 other African countries will have been vaccinated. In a parallel program, 5,000,000 children have already been inoculated against measles; eventually, 30 million will...
This is the week when the 200 millionth U.S. citizen will be born; demographers fix the time and day at 11 a.m., Nov. 20. For the past several weeks, population planners have been leading up to the statistical moment with major birth-control news. In London, the International Planned Parenthood Federation announced last week that its 1968 budget would be $6,500,000, double that of 1967 and six times the amount it spent in 1965. Almost simultaneously, the Manhattan-based Population Council reported that family-planning efforts in Taiwan and South Korea had met with marked success, mainly through...
...sophisticated magnetization process extracts their remaining reservoir of heat. Because there will always be slight thermal motion of the atomic particles, scientists will never actually achieve absolute zero. But last July, Naval Research Laboratory Physicist Arthur Spohr reported achieving a record low temperature by chilling helium to within a millionth of a degree of absolute zero-3/10 of a millionth of a degree colder than the lowest temperature previously achieved...