Word: linke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been the custom for practically all Pudding plays, "Love Rides the Rails" has experienced crises, renewed traditions, and made innovations. Still, the show will go on, with the usual complement of hairy legs, bad jokes, and rollicking music. It may never reach the Shubert, but it will be another link in one of Harvard's most enduring institutions...
...newest wonder in U.S. industry is the transistor, a sliver of germanium or silicon no bigger than a shoelace tip, with wisps of wire attached. It is the missing electronic link that is making possible a host of new devices, e.g., a wrist radio, a hearing aid so tiny that it fits inside an eyeglass frame. In a jet fighter the use of transistors cuts 1,500 Ibs. from the plane's weight. Last week the mighty mite had the electrical industry racing madly to expand transistor production: Motorola is putting up a $1,500,000 plant in Phoenix...
This situation could change in the event of an economic crisis. The only link between Pibul's Bangkok and the peasantry is a bureaucracy of civil servants for whom Pridi was a trusted leader and a defender of their interests against Pibul's military clique. Pridi is now in Red China, preparing, many believe, for a return. In a crisis, the bureaucracy would probably be the first to support his return, and they, if anyone, would be the ones to direct any possible awakening of the peasants from their political apathy...
...planted more cocoa, using our own modest purse. Now cocoa sells for $25, and whole provinces of Costa Rica are suffering." In a TV talk at week's end, he returned to his main theme. "Puerto Rico's destiny," he said, "is to serve as a link between North and South America. Costa Rica's destiny is, perhaps, to help Puerto Rico increase understanding between the two Americas...
...Faculty Council, roughly comparable in function to Harvard's Corporation, rules on all matters of educational policy. Composed of an elected Chairman, the President and Vice-Presidents of the Institute, the Deans of M.I.T.'s five schools, and other key faculty members, the Council forms an effiective link between the individual professors and the administrative officers...