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...addition to the techniques already described, Leacock enlarges the limits of color in photography in Eddie. At the dramatic peak, the day of the last race, the sunrise is done in color, and the small red accents of morning light seem to bleed across the screen as the movie changes from black-and-white to color. After Eddie loses the race, the color distorts the world into a fauvist painting, wild and brutally disorganized. For the final moments of disillusionment, Leacock switches back to black-and-white...
Planting the Colors. All over the jubilant country, fireworks displays lit the skies. In the snows at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest (19,340 ft.) peak, a lieutenant of the new Tanganyikan Rifles planted the colors of the new nation and lit a symbolic torch of unity, fulfilling a longtime wish of Julius Nyerere. "We would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro," he once said. "It would shine beyond our borders, giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only...
...fate of many a lesser Negro college, launched by church groups to fill a complete absence of Negro education in certain areas. As for money, the churches often assumed that "God will take care of it." Typical is two-year Butler College in Tyler, Texas, which hit a peak of 500 students in the early 1950s. Now it is down to 80 students, a faculty of nine and no endowment. Last spring the Baptist-related school lost accreditation, and its survival is indeed...
...some of the hard-core unemployment at last began to give way. Of the 3,990,000 Americans still looking for jobs, the number who had been out of work for 15 weeks or more declined last month to 1,137,000-about half the recession's April peak...
...terror, of promised reward and present punishment, Communist China worked single-mindedly toward Mao's goal-and achieved comparative miracles. In eight years, the cotton harvest was up 30% from its prewar high to 1,600,000 tons. Steel production rose nearly six times above the 1943 peak of 900,000 tons,* although even this spectacular advance brought China's per capita steel production only to 4% of Japan's. With Soviet technical aid, China for the first time started to manufacture trucks and locomotives, tractors and planes. Big industrial complexes sprang up at Paotow, Wuhan...