Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freedom Shirts. A leftist-oriented demagogue, Kapwepwe heads Zambia's powerful grouping of Bemba tribes, which account for a fourth of the country's 4,000,000 population and a good part of its bitter tribal rivalry. Two years ago, when he was elected vice president of the country's ruling United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P.), Kapwepwe automatically took over Zambia's vice-presidency. During a hastily called press conference last week, he abruptly resigned. In a speech designed to upstage Kaunda, who was scheduled to deliver a nationwide address that afternoon, Kapwepwe complained that...
...thin crystal, only one-tenth of an inch square, could carry 10,000 bits of information. Even the tiniest conventional computer circuitry, explained Bell Labs Vice President Jack A. Morton, is able to achieve only 10% of that density. In addition, the crystals need just a fraction of the power required by ordinary computers...
These properties could make possible extraordinarily small, efficient equipment. "We can imagine a data-storage file," says Morton, "holding 15 million coded bits of information in one or two cubic inches and run by forty-thousandths of a watt of power." The same job now would require a closet full of equipment and hundreds of watts...
Died. Ismail Azhari, 69, former President of the Sudan; of a heart attack; in Khartoum. A veteran of British colonial jails, Azhari was elected Prime Minister in 1954 following the pullout of British troops, and guided the Sudan to full independence in 1956. Toppled from power six months later, he bided his time until 1964, when he helped overthrow the country's military dictatorship and a short time later emerged as the Sudan's first President only to be overthrown himself in May of this year. "In a backward country, prison is the politician's university...
That was the old feminism, and its intent was not really to eliminate man but to reduce the power of his pocketbook. The new feminism that underlies a soppy little fable called Thank You All Very Much derives from the praying mantis. Man-a brief biological interlude-is to be casually discarded after procreative use. A girl can have her baby and keep it in single bliss. Sufficient unto the self is the self...