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...worth a thousand words: it is a sound film in which no one ever speaks. The movie manages to get along quite well without dialogue because it is an uncomplicated chase thriller told with the camera on a simple physical and psychological level. The thief is a nuclear physicist (Ray Milland) employed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, where he is microfilming top secret documents for a foreign spy ring. When the FBI gets on his trail, he flees to New York, kills a Government agent in a chase to the top of the Empire State Building, and is about...
...fortnight ago, at the mouth of a huge bottle-shaped abyss near the Spanish frontier in the Pyrenees, Loubens and twelve other Belgian, French and British spelunkers! led by famed Belgian Physicist Max Cosyns, set out to break their own record. Their wives, resigned to indulging their husbands' odd vacation hobby, stayed together at a nearby hotel...
Dave, a philosophy major, now says he thought ruefully as he fell of the Greek concept of hubris-the Icarus complex that drives men to overweening aspirations. Being a practical physicist, Jim sank his ax handle in the solid snow and held on for dear life...
French Nuclear Physicist Joliot-Curie led off with an exhibition of how to face in two directions at once. In one breath he told the council that U.S. troops in Europe and Korea should go back home where they came from. In the next, he implored the rest of the world to "help the American people out of the isolation in which they are being kept." But it was Ringmaster Stalin's favorite literary gymnast, Author Ilya Ehrenburg, who brought down the house with a faultless demonstration of how to say one thing while meaning another...
...pennies, votes and tears of the masses). In 1947 French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, who has been undergoing "medical treatment" in the Soviet Union for the past 17 months, plumped for Approach No. 2. His faithful followers exalted the dove, and sheltered behind such intellectual "fronts" as Physicist Joliot-Curie's "Partisans of Peace...