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Married. Sir Robert Watson-Watt, 73, Scottish-born scientist who was knighted in 1942 for helping to win the Battle of Britain as the principal inventor of radar; and Dame Katherine Forbes, 66, wartime head of the R.A.F. women's auxiliary; he for the third time, she for the first; in London...
Your story on radio's vitality [Feb. 18] fails to mention college radio. While most college operations are limited to the campus, many are expanding. My own station, the country's oldest college station, has turned dream into reality: we have expanded to a 20,000-watt stereo FM station to serve Southern New England with public affairs and music programs. College radio is on the move-I believe that many of tomorrow's radio executives are getting their start at college stations rather than in broadcasting schools...
...became the first recognized aerial expressions of art in motion. Giacometti's Suspended Ball of 1931, Brancusi's Fish on a rotating pedestal of 1926, Thomas Wilfred's lumias of the 1930s with swimming projections of colored light-all these were what Watt's apocryphal teakettle was to the steam turbine...
...rush of orders for its 13 diesel-powered models. Since the blackout, Westinghouse has sold to utilities about 40 gas-driven turbines to use as starters for their big generators. And for the homeowner afraid of the dark, Studebaker Corp.'s Onan division sells a suitcase-sized, 500-watt generator that is powered by home-heating oil. It is large enough to power a few lights and a radio, costs...
...went black in only two heavily populated western sections. The Lake Placid, N.Y., resort area was saved by the grandiloquently named Paul Smith's Electric Light & Power & Railroad Co. A local generator kept New Haven, Conn., aglow. Such isolated Massachusetts communities as Holyoke, Braintree and Taunton never lost a watt, and windswept Nantucket Island, 30 miles off Cape Cod, kept going with a private power system installed...