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...Agassiz telescope will still not be the world's largest; the Dutch are erecting a 75-foot one and the English a 250 footer. The latter will be used at lower frequencies, however, and might transmit pulse to mars...
...nice, polite, formal letter saying this was sent to Ambassador Dunn from Washington to transmit to Pinay. Along with it, Dunn got a set of instructions which diplomats call "verbal comments to be used in the course of conversation," i.e., what he might say to pacify Pinay, who, after all, was going to get barely more than half a billion dollars. Usually diplomats memorize such aids to conversation, or if they quote from them, are careful not to hand over the texts to their hosts. Gist of this oral message, prepared in Washington: if France spends her $525 million wisely...
Parker Wheatly, director of WGBH, the Lowell Institute station, also reported yesterday that "We are working together (with WHRB) in wiring up the University for radio and FM through the steam tunnels, and it may be possible to transmit television through the tunnels for enough to cover the Business School...
Much better is the by-play between Weldy and the gang. Its leader is perhaps the most sympathetic character, played by Jack Kerr who is a frequent Brattle Theatre performer. More than any of the others, Kerr is able to transmit the fights between maturity and boyishness which are typical of adolescents. Stewart seems too much like a morose Henry Aldrich. And in the same way, his mother, Irene Hervey, never become a real individual; she is always the doting and misguided parent. Beyerly Lawrence, however, does quite well in the confusing part of the mother's friend...
...Abacus. The Tokyo Exchange's day-to-day operation would bug many a Wall Streeter's eyes. Every day some 1,500 traders pack into a trading area only 75 feet square. On busy days, few can find room to move; they transmit their buying & selling signals by waving their bamboo fans. Their method of recording transactions is painfully cumbersome. One of the biggest brokerage houses has only one battered Remington Rand machine, does most of its arithmetic at machine speed on primitive abacuses. Frequently, its brokers and clerks have to work...