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Despite DC's virtual disappearance from general use, engineers have lived with the nagging knowledge that oneway current is better for the longer hauls. DC transmission lines carry more power and are cheaper to build. Their smooth stream of electricity is easier to control and to blend with current from other sources in a network. Trouble is, DC cannot be handled by transformers; what was needed to fit it for the big-time was a practical method of manufacturing it from high-voltage AC current at the generator end of the line, and of converting it back...
...Hemingway story triggered a crisp crime thriller starring Burt Lancaster as the willing victim gunned down by hired assassins. The latest version, with John Cassavetes, was designed as a full-length feature for television, then was bucked along to theater exhibitors when NBC decided that its burly blend of sex and brutality might loom rather large on the home screen...
...century B.C. and the poet Lucilius was pouring out his satires, Sergius Orata was pouring his considerable fortune into his single passion-the cultivation of the oyster. The ups and downs of that bivalvular mollusk ever since are the subject of Novelist Clark's book-a witty blend of fact, fable and fine poetic nonsense...
Hearst's other San Francisco paper, the evening News Call Bulletin, is a blend of unprofitable competitors. Despite its monopoly of the afternoon field, the News Call Bulletin has slipped in circulation until it is not appreciably larger than the Pacific Coast Edition of the Wall Street Journal. Nevertheless, Editor Thomas Eastham plans to deploy a convention force of 25-some 18 more than the Examiner-by drafting his TV critic, a reporter whose normal assignment is the Parks and Recreation Department, and anyone else at hand...
Denmark has a special charm, a blend of Baltic wit and North Sea sauce. And the pride of Danes stems from more than possession of Tuborg and Carlsberg beer, or of Europe's oldest royal house. "The Danes are superb salesmen of themselves," sniffs a Swede. "They play their little-mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen image to the hilt." Some 4,500,000 people live in the tidy land north of Schleswig-Holstein, and they wallow in hygge (pronounced HUG-ga), which simply means coziness. It is an indispensable word in Danish that reaches everyone, everywhere. People plan a hyggelig...