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...only dean who said flatly that no tuition rise was in sight was John C. Snyder of the School of Public Health. "We have just had a rise up to $1150," he said, "and none is contemplated for the near future...
...stages in the disintegration of Macbeth's character. In any production of the play, the director and cast should consciously direct their full attention to this issue, or they may be tempted to over-exploit the dramatic effects offered by the play, and in so doing lose sight of its central movement...
...where he will probably hear American jazz badly played and pay possibly $20 for an indifferent meal, though the caviar, the tea and the ice cream will be excellent. But Moscow night life, except for a furtive prostitute outside the Moskva Hotel and, in almost any bar, the sight of a solitary Russian throwing back innumerable vodkas will remain closed to the Western visitor...
Prospects of worldwide television transmission are looking up. At last week's "scatter propagation" conference at George Washington University, electronics engineers were enthusiastic about the recently declassified techniques for transmitting "line-of-sight" waves much farther than the horizon...
Recent discoveries showed that on certain frequencies not all of the energy in the line-of-sight signal makes its escape into space. A small part of it is "scattered" downward. Electronics men compare this effect to the scattering of light from a searchlight beam. Not much light is scattered, but often the beam can be seen from a great distance when the searchlight itself is invisible...