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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Is a Network? Viewers who hear the familiar NBC chimes and see the familiar linked initials are apt to think of "the network" as a solid entity. But few know what a network really is. Strictly speaking, as Bob Kintner puts it, it is "programs and a lot of telephone wire." The wire (44,000 miles, rented from A.T.&T. at $17.4 million a year) loosely holds together NBC's five wholly owned stations (by FCC ruling, no individual or corporation may own more than seven radio or TV outlets), plus 207 independently owned affiliates with which...
Noise in the Sky. At St. Lawrence, soon after one of the wards was unlocked, one patient returned leading another, who was limping. The explanation: "We heard a noise in the sky. We had heard of airplanes, but could never see one from the closed ward. We got so excited looking at this one that we didn't look where we were going, and Amy fell down." A man kept going to the parking lots, sitting in unlocked cars. Eventually, he broke a silence of years to explain: he could not imagine how a car would work without...
Most characteristic of Bahian art were wrought-iron figures of the dread god Exú, pronounced eh-shoe (see color page). As with other Bahian folk figures, Exú suffered a sea change in being transplanted from Africa. Among other things, he acquired the horns and trident of the Christian devil, and a wife (to keep him more content). Exú's power for death and destruction is unquestioned by thousands of believers, who rarely refer to him by name. They call him simply O Compadre (The Companion...
...makings of a revolution in architecture, because it puts the horizontal steel-in tension principles that apply to suspension bridges into a vertical context. The wires, in a state of tension, keep the mast unbending and rigid. The aluminum tubes, arranged like pairs of end-to-end coat hangers (see cut), push the wires apart to keep them taut. An exact balance of push-and-pull makes the tower stand...
...held water." Most U.S. visitors agree that Russian scientists are less restricted by political ideology than by the rigid hierarchies of the institutes where they work (which are outgrowths of ideology). "The director is boss," said one of them, "and the younger men tremble when they come to see him." The hierarchal power of the senior scientists sometimes keeps younger men from doing independent research...