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Since Carnegie's time, the census of U.S. charitable foundations has described a near-perpendicular climb: up from two dozen in 1900 to more than 19,000 today, with new foundations spawning at the rate of 1,500 a year. Together, they control assets valued at anywhere from $20 billion to $100 billion, depending on who is making the estimate; last year they gave $1.25 billion to a myriad of causes...
...control jet" of air, blown perpendicular to the power stream as it passes through the base leg, can force the stream to attach itself to the opposite side of the circuit. When that happens, the power stream flows out entirely through the other arm of the Y. A puff of the other control jet reverses the process, just as a small voltage change on the grid of a vacuum tube can control a relatively heavy flow of current through the tube's plate circuit. Like a vacuum tube, the fluidic circuit can thus be used as a switch...
Robertson restored the margin just before the third period ended. He took a short pass from Saltonstall, dribbled to his right across the penalty area, and let loose a perpendicular shot when goalie Roger Skrobat came out of the nets...
Balconies for Viewing. Most of all, Westminster Abbey has taught more than 30 generations what England is. Now, at a cost of $1,120,000 and ten years' labor, the Perpendicular Gothic pillars and spires stand renewed, the vaults and tombs are freshly polychromed (see color pages). The Abbey is actually under the jurisdiction of the Crown, that is, the English people, rather than under the sole rule of the church. When Elizabeth II comes next week to her "Royal Peculiar," she will come for the plain song and preaching more as just another communicant than as head...
...straight up-ascent of the 14,701-ft. Matterhorn's north wall; in Switzerland. Two days after 60 m.p.h. winds forced Bonatti and two friends to abandon a similar assault, he was back on the mountain, alone, inching up the ice-covered rock that leans slightly from the perpendicular (TIME, Feb. 26). It was four days before he finally staggered onto the summit, briefly embraced a wrought-iron cross, then started the descent to Zermatt and a hero's welcome...