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...bewilderingly complex domestic problems. The "miracle in the desert" has been transformed into a highly urbanized society; 85% of the Israelis now live in the nation's four largest cities, while only 4% still live in the kibbutzim. Zionist Writer Ze'ev Jabotinsky remarked in the 1920s: "We won't really be a country until we have Jewish policemen and Jewish prostitutes." Today Israel has both...
Eleanor had done her duty for the preservation of the line, had exiled Lucy Mercer and had even offered Franklin a divorce. Lonely, frustrated, hurt, in the 1920s she began undertaking assorted good works and political activity (the latter for F.D.R.'s benefit...
...Norfolk, Mass., county commission, the service suggested that the granite Greek-revival courthouse in which the case was tried should be made into a national landmark. Displaying a touch of radical chic, the Park Service argued that the Sacco and Vanzetti trial had "crystallized the tensions of the 1920s," revealing, among other things, "hostility to radicals, antipathy to foreigners and a jealous protection of the status...
Lunan, whose article was the topic of a special meeting of the British Interplanetary Society in London last week, has reached back to the early days of radio for support for his contention. In the late 1920s, the Norwegian geophysicist Carl Stormer and a Dutch collaborator, Balthasar van der Pol, sent each other a number of short-wave radio messages. The purpose of the tests was to study a curious side effect. At times the radio signals were followed by mysterious echoes that were picked up as many as 15 seconds after the original transmissions. Indeed, the delays were...
...vehicle could swing into an orbit around it at approximately the right distance to encounter a planet with life-supporting temperatures. If it picked up telltale radio signals, the probe might then bounce them back to advertise its presence, thereby producing an effect like the echoes of the 1920s. Finally, as its first message, the robot might transmit a picture of the area of the heavens from which it came...