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...evocation of civilization's past. Troy, Nineveh, Tyre, Thebes, Babylon, Carthage, Persepolis, Byzantium-all the fallen cities rise again from the centuries in her memorial. In this volume, Constance Babington Smith, Dame Rose's cousin, and Canadian Artist-Photographer Roloff Beny have paid lovely tribute to those glorious ghosts. Beny's 172 photographs, twelve in color, make a perfect setting for Dame Rose's text. In these pages the wayfarer irresistibly shares the author's "intoxication, at once so heady and so devout," at "the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs...
...cinder-covered ice of Lake St. Clair. And it was not long before an enchanted U.S. public was thrilling to the exploits of a whole new set of heroes-Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, and the mysterious "Baron von Rickenbacher*-helmeted hotspurs who risked life and limb in the glorious pursuit of speed...
...airlines have stepped up their advertising budgets and, since everyone now has roughly the same equipment, have switched to stressing the gleaming cities and glorious resorts to which they fly. Western now offers "North Country Adventures" in Alaska; United boosts a trip to San Francisco in the East and one to New York in the West. National has a ladies' flight to Florida that includes, for coach fare plus $171, a seven-day hotel stay and lessons in health and beauty care, sculpture, bridge and stock-market investing. Along with car-rental companies, airlines are pushing plane-car packages...
Johnson announced that as the first step in erasing the gulf he would call a White House conference of scholars, Negro leaders and Government officials; their mission may be to find ways of fulfilling economic, educational and social rights. This mission, he said, is "the glorious opportunity of this generation to end the one huge wrong of the American nation-and in so doing to find America for ourselves with the same immense thrill of discovery which gripped those who first began to realize that here, at last, was a home for freedom...
Filmed in Kenya, Moses too often skips over the dignified Masai and the glorious scenery in order to study the breed of wildlife Hollywood knows best. One cat is Ubi (Raymond St. Jacques), a troublesome tribal hipster who has lived in Harlem, and can spout such phrases as: "You goofed it, daddy." Ever wary of what Ubi may do, Mitchum scarcely can find any time for Carroll Baker, who speaks a few words of Swahili rather competently and lets the rest of her lines fall where they may. Actress Baker behaves in a manner befitting a missionary's daughter...