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Like many actors, he is sanguine about a piece of work while he is at it, but he soon cools into a stern self-critic. During the filming of Duel in the Sun, he talked -jocosely, to be sure-about out-heeling Satan and out-Laurencing Olivier. Now he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leading Man | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Haman may not win his claim on the clouds as private property, but his maneuver may help to solve a legal puzzle. In many arid regions, such as the U.S. Southwest, rain falls spottily, bringing good crops to some areas and drought to others nearby. Rainmaking with dry ice dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whose Rain? | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Perhaps the least spurious and most difficult maneuver is the Oklahoma ride. After the game is over the player rocks the machine skillfully, just strongly enough to jar any loose buttons on the playing surface and weakly enough to keep the tilt from hitting. Result, free games. Of course there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brute Force Replacing Skill As Pinball Becomes Lost Art | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Sidewalk superintendents during the next few months will watch squads of workers maneuver construction of the four-story Georgian edifice while also keeping intact the 'Cliffe's small white Field House, home of Radio Radcliffe, a collection of hockey sticks, and several quiversful of arrows.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frozen Turf No Problem as 'Cliffers Dig for New Dorm | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Two Motives. French labor unionists, rallying behind a surprisingly forceful new Premier, Robert Schuman (see FOREIGN NEWS),hamstrung a Communist maneuver to paralyze France with strikes. After a week of tension in which the fate of the Fourth Republic hung in the balance, French workers were pouring back to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Door to the Future | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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