Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kiddies form a vast, commercial audience, almost as important to U.S. business as their soap-opera-loving mothers; each has become a sort of quivering vacuum tube, and the man who can tune in on exactly the right wave length automatically assumes the same power over the tot that Edgar Bergen holds over Charlie McCarthy. Given just the right nudge, Junior, even at distances up to 3,000 miles, will open his mouth and say, "Mamma...
...through an Iran relay station, the Voice of America beamed an account of the Shah's glad-hand tour. When the Shah returned to his country he decided to continue the Voice relays. For 15 minutes daily since then, the Voice has been heard from the Teheran medium-wave station. Last week the Shah's government silenced the VOA relay broadcasts. The order came a few days after Iran's government had signed a trade barter agreement with the Soviet Union...
...Robert Barer of Oxford University, England, is sure he has licked the problem. He uses monochromatic (single wave length) ultraviolet at an intensity which is too low to hurt the cell. It is also too feeble to make a useful impression on a fluorescent screen or photographic plate, so Barer focuses the invisible image, enlarged with a reflecting microscope to about three inches in diameter, on a screen. Then, by means of a rapidly revolving mirror, he "scans"' the image, throwing the ultraviolet light from a narrow slice of it into a photomultiplier tube. The faint glimmer of ultraviolet...
...lightly splashed with irony and symbolism; beyond his other functions, the soldier, with his yowling for the noose, exemplifies a certain dogged modern-day pessimism. But the play is not to be dredged for large meanings. It says, if it says anything, that life itself is a tidal wave that overflows all philosophic sea walls...
...leading entry as of last week was a Tommy Tucker recording called I'm Praying to St. Christopher ("who watches land and sea, To keep you, darling, safe from harm wherever you may be"). Also riding high on the spiritual wave: It's No Secret ("what God can do"), by Cowboy-Singer Stuart Hamblen, a recent Billy Graham convert. Columbia has just released a musical version of the 23rd Psalm sung by Vocalist Doris Day. Scheduled: The House Where I Worship, sung by Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell...