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Multiplied Wattage. In total hours beamed over short wave, VOA, with 854 hours a week, is behind Russia (1,403 hours) and China (1,015 hours), and is only slightly ahead of the United Arab Republic (827 hours). However, by freely offering local stations tapes of its own programs and live broadcasts of special events, such as U.S. space shots, VOA vastly multiplies its wattage...
...already been done, many fluidics problems remain. Scientists still do not fully understand some fluid-flow phenomena; fluidic circuits are still relatively cumbersome and are generally more expensive than their electronic counterparts. In addition, the speed of fluidic devices is limited by the maximum velocity of a pressure wave through the fluid-which is the relatively slow speed of sound. This places them at a distinct disadvantage in competition with electronic computers, which are limited in speed only by their size and the velocity of an electrical impulse-the speed of light...
...There were a wave of assaults and robberies" during the disturbance, DeGuglielmo said. "Several places of business had their merchandise destroyed to the extent of several hundred dollars each. Mothers with children were driven to an hysterical state and sought refuge and shelter in business establishments," he added...
...Unbowing Bosses. Another casualty was Home Minister Gulzarilat Nanda. Indira Gandhi has been under so much criticism in recent weeks for fail ing to take stern measures against In dia's growing wave of rioting that she realized it was time to take decisive action. So, out went the 68-year-old ascetic who had served for the past 15 years in one Cabinet post or another...
Love alone does not govern the play, for it is also a drama about passion as a prime element, a life force that no more obeys the laws of convention than a tidal wave heeds the shore line. The heroine (Maureen Stapleton) is a kind of common woman's Phaedra. Just as the Greek Queen went mad in her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, this Sicilian widow near New Orleans goes mad in her passion for the memory of her dead truck-driver husband. When a young sailor lights the fires of love in the eyes...