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...Forest, famed "father of radio" (because of his 1906 invention of the three-element vacuum tube), and still active in his own laboratory, got a cake and a kiss from his third wife, Marie, at an 80th-birthday party in Hollywood...
...broke away under the leadership of Jeroboam,* and two (Juda and Benjamin) remained to provide the subsequent history of the Jews. But the fate of the Ten Tribes is one of the persistent mysteries of history and a tempting lure for eager souls always waiting to rush into any vacuum of knowledge, armed with a ready-made theory and infinite capacity for inductive reasoning. In the past 100-odd years, a cult called British Israel, which estimates its membership in "hundreds of thousands," most of them in Britain, the U.S. and the Commonwealth, has developed a rather startling theory about...
...vacuum of exile during World War II, the governments of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg spent much of their time working out plans for the happy day of liberation. Their most ambitious scheme was for economic union: interstate free trade, a common tariff and excise, a free exchange of workers. The beginnings proved more modest: after liberation came a customs union with a catchy name, Benelux, and talk of how the three nations would prove "an example of unity in a divided world...
...sees no insurmountable obstacles. First stage would be simple guiding cables, which would have considerable value when visibility is poor. Next would come the buried transmitters to warn of obstacles on the road. These, thinks Zworykin. will probably have to wait until transistors are available in quantity; vacuum tubes in the transmitters would demand too much current. Final stage would be a complete system to deliver driverless vehicles at their destinations unguided by human hands...
Lean, stubborn Charles A. (for Austin) Steen was so full of troubles that it was only natural to think of him as Bad-Luck Charlie. A onetime oil geologist for Socony-Vacuum, he spent two years in the South American jungle where no white men had ever been before, then went to work for a Texas oil company. When he was fired for telling off his boss, he found that no other oil company would have him. He scraped along in the contracting business for a while, but never forgot a romantic dream of his days at the Texas College...