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...unsuspecting radio listener (say, on Mars) who happened to tune in on the Earth last week would have been struck by a peculiar hissing sound. It was a form of static caused by the word "peace" being fervently repeated by millions from Minsk to Minneapolis. Contrary to what the listener might conclude, the phenomenon did not mean that peace was any nearer, or that anyone could relax. In fact, the more people sat back in the belief that peace on earth was just around the corner, the nearer the world would...
Experimental Theatre has not yet found the perfect blend of music, dance and drama. Even in Davey Crockett, the dancing sometimes jars against the songs or the rather static storytelling. But at week's end, it seemed good enough entertainment to risk letting the public pay for a look...
...electronic trickery he can make the controls and instruments in the cockpit behave as if a fuel line had clogged, or as if a deadly crust of ice were forming on the wings and tail surfaces. He can knock out the radio or devil it with static. He can kindle a fire in the baggage compartment or chill the passengers by knocking out the cabin heating system...
...backward-looking boards, he said, give examinations that try to find out whether a candidate knows what the examiners know, not what the candidate himself knows; they stifle medical progress by "withholding approval of the new by insistent emphasis on expert knowledge of the old"; they become "partners of static and reactionary, albeit powerful and respectable, inertia or ignorance." Dr. Gregg's suggestion: pick specialists by their competence in practice...
...Static. Koons sold the steel, at $215 a ton, to a Cleveland steel broker. It rapidly passed through two other brokers "around the grapevine" until it was bought by Louis Golden, a Detroit broker. Golden paid $300 a ton. On paper, the steel had traveled from Detroit to New York to Cleveland and back to Detroit, and $200 a ton had been added to its price. Actually it never left K-F's warehouse...