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...Grande from Del Rio. Texas. XERF's transmitter boasts 250,000 watts, five times more than any U.S. station is permitted, and it can even be heard across the Canadian border. Moreover. XERF is gloriously free of the restrictions that the FCC puts on U.S. stations. Such a setup seems made to order for huckstering baubles, panaceas-and marked-up thingumabobs that cannot get airspace in the U.S. -and it is. But XERF's prime evening time is given over to what the radio trade calls the schlockm'misier (from schlock, a Yiddish word for junk...
...cuddly over the air waves. They have made notable contributions to the radio arts; their experimentation and enthusiasm, for example, has led to widespread use of single sideband radio. In 1957, ham operators helped track Russia's Sputnik when U.S. scientists were caught without an effective radio tracking setup. In the Congo crisis last summer, a Leopoldville ham picked up a message from a remote part of the Congo that said: "We need help; five women, eight children, four men cut off for days. Two women raped." Within hours, Belgian paratroopers were at the isolated farmhouse...
...interest in the tall, bucktoothed expert and arranged his appointment as head of the military history faculty at Tel Aviv University. Beer often traveled abroad as an officially approved Israeli military authority; at home, he played, host to visiting VIPs and briefed them on Israel's defense setup...
...converted passes from Bamford and Spruance at the start of the second half, making the score 12 to 1. Then coach Bruce Munro, in an effort to keep the score down and stop the game from deteriorating, told his men: "Set it up. Don't score unless from a setup. . ." In the course of three minutes, Louchheim, Bamford, and Reese answered with three more tallies...
...addition to juggling the economy and foreign crises, President Kennedy last week ordered a step-up in U.S. deterrent and airlift capability, and asked Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to produce by month's end a full reappraisal of the U.S. defense setup. Along the way, Kennedy registered a solid boost in G.I. morale by rescinding Dwight Eisenhower's order calling for a cut-down in the number of military dependents abroad to slow the drain on gold...