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...decided to try undiplomatic tactics. In an upper room of the Embassy, he installed two short-wave radios, set them at different wavelengths to insure round-the-clock squawking. He was simply testing, he explained, the effect of varying weather conditions. The squatters have admitted that the static is getting on their nerves, especially when two squalling babies provide an infantile obbligato...
Poland's Russian-controlled Government also tried out some static, Moscow style. Sixteen Poles were convicted of spying for "a foreign government." One of the charges was that they had supplied ex-Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane with material for his article "How Russia Rules Poland," which appeared in LIFE, July 14.* The sentence: death for nine, long imprisonment for seven...
...same problem that confronts the conscientious manufacturer--how to maintain the quality of the product without raising the cost to the consumer. And, like thrifty housewives, the dining hall stewards wonder if they can keep the cost of meals within their present budget. Students also, particularly veterans with a static income, are experimenting with the manipulation of a dollar which every day means less and less in terms of purchasable commodities...
...original symphonist, but as an opera composer he was still leaning on the past. He fashioned Idomeneo after the Alceste and Iphigenie en Aulide of Gluck, the grandfather of grand opera. Gluck had tried to pump some life into the stodgy, formalized opera seria which had degenerated into stiff, static pieces in which singers could show off their voices...
...other deputies (80) abstained. Abstention by the Communists got them out of their embarrassing spot as partners in debate of the Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It was also a fairly safe move because last week the radio to Moscow developed bad static, and neither Communists nor anybody else could discover what the Russian line was; Russia has not yet rejected the treaty...