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...extraordinary and dramatic way, Sir Charles Snow showed himself every inch the novelist last night. For the British civil servant, scientist, and writer opened the first of his three Godkin lectures on "Science and Government" with what was almost a novelist's account of the intertwining careers of two English scientists in volved in a historic quarrel...
When Shakespeare plays television, he usually loses. A line here, a scene there, disappears under the chopper as all that spirit is crammed onto the 21-inch screen. The total effect, too frequently, is bottled bard. But this week NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame pulled out the cork, took a full setting and two hours for an excellent, virtually uncut production of Macbeth...
...familiar to air travelers, is remarkably simple. Twelve powerful lights are arranged in groups of three around the threshold of the runway. In front of each lamp is a filter with a red upper half and a clear lower half. In front of the filter is a two-inch horizontal slit. When an observer is above the center of the beam, the lamp looks white; in the middle it changes to pink, and in the lower half...
...Crimeds added one two-point conversion, and a six-inch field goal by are-footed tickle Paul Cowan...
Renowned as a structural engineer and a master of pre-stressed and pre-cast concrete, Nervi built the Turin Exhibition Hall with a one-and-one-half-inch thick concrete shell spanning 300 feet. He is a professor at the University of Rome...