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...Lion's Roar. Then it happened. Prince, the tiger, got nervous, began whipping his tail. It flicked against Tyrone and the big lion turned, rose, roared and lashed out with his paw. The tiger snarled, lashed back, lost his balance and fell. Tyrone was on him like a load of coal. The second tiger jumped Tyrone. Then every lion in the cage came down. In 15 seconds the air was trembling with the kind of noise you hear when a bomber's engines are run up full. Big cats crouched, sprang, rolled, roared all over the ground...
...Zweig's own testimony, Balzac's load of debt from his business failures and love of high living seems to have driven him on to writing as much as women or the urge to power. The ill-mannered, unkempt son of a tight-fisted petit bourgeois, he was at heart a snob and a social climber who faked a claim to nobility. To keep up with the post-Napoleonic Joneses, Balzac sat at his table for twelve hours a day, years on end, turning out alternately tripe and masterpieces. Before he was 40 his fame was such that...
...concerns only the establishment of a pay scale for Constellations and DC-45, which have been flown only recently commercially. The Connies gross 32 ½ more tons than the DC-35 and are 100 miles an hour faster. We are earning for TWA 8co% more than the pay load of the DC-35. We are asking less than 1% of that added revenue for flying this heavier, faster, more productive equipment. The salary should be commensurate to the job performed...
...enjoyed the military trappings, announced that he was all for keeping the fireworks-abroad. Questioned about the U.S. Army-sponsored Hemispheric Defense Plan (TIME, June 24). Gonzalez Videla said: "The armaments race has been one of the bad factors in Latin America. . . . We are too poor to bear the load and [we] need the money to raise [our] standard of living. As a Chilean and ... an American, I am, frankly, an enemy of over-arming...
...today that the University program on Russia is stalled for lack of men to teach it. In the Harvard faculty are some of the best men on various aspects of the Soviet Union, but they have heavy departmental duties and could not carry the load alone. The recent death of Samuel H. Cross has severely crimped the vital language side of the regional study. According to those in charge of the plan, men just cannot be found either in sufficient quantity or quality...