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Just off the Peruvian coastline, they were foodless, save for some beef. "I've sailed before, so the hurricane didn't worry me," says Arrow, "but I've never been really hungry. I was quite frightened." To make things worse a cloud layer, hovering off the Peruvian coast, put visibility at just about zero. Davis couldn't solve the food problem, but, being a competent navigator, he was not seriously handicapped by the lack of visibility. About 100 miles out, the engine sputtered; Davis investigated, and found that there was no diesel oil left. To op-operate the engine...
...this point a cloud appeared on the Republican horizon. Philadelphia was giving Stevenson a surprising majority; with more than half the election districts recorded, Stevenson led by 86,000. Analysts had thought Ike might lose Pennsylvania if the Democratic majority in Philadelphia exceeded 100,000. The Philadelphia sweep raised the possibility that 1948 would repeat itself and the early G.O.P. lead in the nation might melt away...
...altitude drama. But the picture's breathtaking aerial shots capture much of the excitement and exaltation of flight in dazzling imagery: long shots of sleek, gleaming jets climbing and diving in magnificent, vapor-trailed trajectory or hanging suspended in space among the high, pale palaces of slow cloud; head-on close-ups of test pilots in G-suits and goggles, framed in a halo of Plexiglas...
Birth of a Nation is a movie with a cloud over its head. Whenever anyone has tried to show it, an ominous thunder has been heard from those who, in the name of tolerance, will not tolerate its exhibition...
Time was, in Texas, when a man didn't have anything big to say that a shooting iron couldn't say better; but those days seem gone forever. In the last 30 years, a cloud of literary and artistic activity has been gathering over the Southwest, and in the last ten days it has grown large enough to look like the beginnings of a regional renaissance...