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...widest range the "talking drums" can cover is 10 or 15 miles, less than a quarter of the present unrelayed TV transmission range. Language differences bar relay coast-to-coast hookups. Most drums can send only cut & dried messages, like those which Western Union puts out for unimaginative U.S. customers. The drum service is usually person-to-person, and each member of the tribe has his drumbeat code name, e.g.: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing," or, "Don't go where the lucky fellows are taking women along lest you get into trouble...
...19th Century attributes of probity, confidence and dignity?which seem to be taking on a new luster as the undignified 20th Century reaches its halfway point. He does not court public adulation. Besides, Canadians had given him the salute that counts in last June's general election: the widest mandate ever handed to a national leader (TIME, July 4). When the Canadian Parliament opens next week, St. Laurent's Liberal Party will hold a record total of 187 out of 262 seats...
...aureomycin was better than any other antibiotic for treating undulant fever (brucellosis), and that it produced good results against streptococcic and staphylococcic infections, scarlet fever, and a type of pneumonia that doctors sometimes call "primary atypical," sometimes "virus." The British medical journal Lancet has reported that aureomycin "has the widest range of activity of any known antibacterial substance...
...seems to resent all fairly recent English language movies. This attitude of the Theater ignores a basic distinction that exists today in all movies. Two categories have become evident-the Hollywood type and the literary type. The former is generally considered more lucrative, and the U.T. has found its widest regular audience with this kind of movie. Even the U.T.'s revival days have lately been filled with popular Hollywood articles of the past instead of showing old cinema masterpieces. The Theater, with its two contrasting audiences, has made its choice. The HLU filled the gap left...
Harvard, which comes rather late than early to this problem, has benefitted by the mistakes of its colleagues: the Wright proposals, by allowing the widest latitude of time as well as choice, avoid the real danger evident in other colleges, which destroy all choice by stacking the required courses in the first two years and saving concentration for later...