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...between Florida and Cuba, testing their 24-ft. catamaran and tinkering with their boat's two 100-h.p. Volvo inboard-outboard engines. The Volvos were gobbling gas and running hot at high speed. Nevertheless, Ray finally decided that the time had come. The five FN Belgian rifles with flash suppressors, 1,000 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades and masses of plastic explosives were unloaded for a final check at the Anguilla Cays, where Ray planned to make a last radio transmission...
Fade Out-Fade In is a musical comedy spoof of movies and moviemaking in the 1930s, but it unintentionally recalls a ritual of the prize ring-the introductory parade of ex-champs, somewhat fattened with age, who troop through the ropes, flash hearty grins at the crowd, and receive the perfunctory applause of nostalgic recognition. In more or less the same perfunctory way, Fade Out-Fade In gives walk-on-and-off bits of business to actors who play characters recognizable as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple and Bojangles Robinson, the Busby Berkeley chorines, Boris Karloff, Tarzan, Jean...
Harvard managed its final flash of brilliance in the next event, the 120-yard high hurdles, when both Awori and Spitzberg qualified for the finals and Awori got three points with a third place finish. His time of 0:14.3 was the same as that of the winner, John Bethea of Morgan State...
...Scantlin Electronics Inc. prints figures on a tape when questioned in a proper code; Ultronic Systems Corp. uses small lights that give three digits of information at a time. In this fiercely competitive field, Teleregister will have an advanced entry: a desk device hooked to its computer that will flash the information on a screen. But none of these visual systems are likely to be quite so impressive as the embalmed voice of Walter Jennison speaking tonelessly for Am-Quote's computer...
...himself. On the side of the New York State Pavilion at the World's Fair is an Indiana "mural" made up of the letters E, A and T in a crisscross, which draws an occasional visitor in search of hot dogs or pizza. It is supposed to flash on and off with hundreds of lights, but every time the fair people plug it in, it blows its own fuse. His poster for the opening of the ballet theater hangs in Lincoln Center. A show of recent work opened at Manhattan's Stable Gallery...