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Skimmed. In Jamestown, N.Y., a half-full milk bottle skidded off a window sill, plummeted six stories, crashed through a thin wooden panel, landed bolt upright, unbroken...
...definitions looked simple enough, in Webster's dictionary. But translating a definition into action-even staged, cinematic action-was not so simple, as Encyclopedia Britannica Films discovered. When E.B.F. wanted to make educational movies on Democracy and Despotism, it took a panel of twelve scholarly advisers (headed by Yale's Harold Lasswell) 20 months and 100 conferences to agree. The scholars had to survey from Plato to Harry Truman before they came to terms...
...messy inside and out, but the precise, blankly implacable machines they kill with have a brutal beauty. Ever since then, Fernand Léger (rhymes with beige hay) has been painting flat, bright-colored pictures which look as smoothly efficient, and as difficult to comprehend, as the instrument panel...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, who was a soldier in the first war, and a wartime administrator in the second, will round off the panel by pointing out the potential dangers inherent in any organization representing ex-soldiers...
Each representative will have ten minutes in which to state his position, after which the whole panel will be the target for questions from the floor...