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...Europeans, ironically, together with the Chinese and the Japanese, who have the greatest distrust of U.S.-Soviet détente. NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, the distinguished, strongly anti-Communist Dutch diplomat, warned at the Ottawa meeting that the U.S.S.R. considers détente a "oneway process serving the exclusive interests of the Soviet Union." One school of Kremlinologists, centered chiefly in Britain and including such men as Robert Conquest and Leopold Labedz, label détente "the American failure." They see American losses in everything from trade to the strategic balance...
...type because it has a positive charge), the other with an electron abundance (or N-type because it has a negative charge)-an electrical current applied to this junction will flow in only one direction: from the N side to the P side, much the same as the oneway current flow in old-fashioned radio vacuum tubes called diodes. Even more significant, certain semiconductors, notably those made of gallium phosphide and gallium arsenide phosphide, will glow with a bright red light when current is flowing through them...
...last week's maiden transatlantic crossing of the Queen Elizabeth 2 (oneway fares: $490 to $3,000), the VIP list read like a page from the London telephone directory and the formal wear was mostly rented. Newspaper reporters divided their attention between F.D.R.'s youngest son John and a passenger notable chiefly for having made 22 previous crossings. Desperately, they wove vignettes from such unpromising material as the pet white mouse in a first-class stateroom, the ship's minor collision with a whale, and a vicar selling oak trees to reforest Sherwood Forest. With the weather...
...Garland affects a far broader audience than her ever-present little bluebirds. She has the true entertainer's capacity for transmitting her feelings across the footlights. Nor is it a oneway message. "Audiences," she says, "have kept me alive." As she told her exuberant cult at the Palace last week: "Everything I want is right here...
Despite DC's virtual disappearance from general use, engineers have lived with the nagging knowledge that oneway current is better for the longer hauls. DC transmission lines carry more power and are cheaper to build. Their smooth stream of electricity is easier to control and to blend with current from other sources in a network. Trouble is, DC cannot be handled by transformers; what was needed to fit it for the big-time was a practical method of manufacturing it from high-voltage AC current at the generator end of the line, and of converting it back...