Word: wind
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Zenith Radio stirred up a high wind and some heavy dust when it advertised that all TV sets - except Zenith's - were in danger of becoming obsolete (TIME, March 21). Last week, the wind was dying and the dust settling. In a Baltimore speech, FCC Chairman Wayne Coy announced: "I think the question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing...
...have sompin to keep your mind on when you're up here crankin," says Jimmy Dyke, who has been coming up to the shack to wind the Mem Hall clock every week for the last 18 years...
WATCH THE NORTH WIND RISE (290 pp.) -Robert Graves-Creative...
Watch the North Wind Rise is no great shakes either as a novel or a sociological essay. But it manages to stand up-and to stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...
Tomorrow, Professor Rashevsky of the University of Chicago, will talk at 4 p.m., and the three speakers will hold a joint discussion at 8 p.m. to wind up the series. Tomorrow's talks will also be in Emerson...