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...widely presumed to have drowned, Stonehouse had been variously alleged to be a victim of the Mafia, a Czech spy, a CIA agent and a financial swindler escaping his creditors. When he turned up in Melbourne last week, under arrest for entering Australia illegally, it all suddenly seemed much simpler. His problem evidently was that his exporting ventures were hopelessly...
When Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution nearly three years ago, it seemed a logical, even perhaps perfunctory capping of women's renewed struggle for equality. The wording could not have been simpler or seemingly less controversial: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied nor abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Within nine months, 22 states had ratified the amendment and the necessary 16 more were expected to do so long before the 1979 deadline. Then in early 1973 various groups mounted a powerful opposition drive...
...burden than in the United States, if only because most families have just one or two rooms, even though the only common domestic machines seem to be radios and sewing machines. Though as guests we always got sumptuous food, ordinary Chinese food is probably a good bit simpler than American. A lot of people eat at least one meal a day in a commune or factory cafeteria, and on hot days you see people who've brought bowls of food outside, especially early in the morning. The restaurants seem to do better at night. And there are day-care centers...
...another, except one teacher. The atmosphere was quite different from that of more official gatherings. For example, a young woman asked us what love meant to us, and admitted she couldn't answer her own question, and someone else said, half-seriously, that classical relations of love were simpler and better. "Which classical relations?" a third person asked innocently. "You mean like Confucius?" Everyone laughed--in fact, everyone laughed a lot, and in general, despite the language barrier, the atmosphere reminded me more of seeing old friends for the first time in a long time than of the other meetings...
Almost from the time that the first television picture tube appeared in the 1920s, electronic engineers have been looking for a simpler, less fragile and more economical device for displaying images transmitted over the air waves. Now scientists at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories in Pittsburgh think that they may have found a way. At this month's electro-optics and international laser exhibition in San Francisco, they displayed the prototype of a flat-screen TV system that is less than one-eighth of an inch thick and may some day be hung on a wall like a pane...