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...direction of Fred Zinneman comes up to his high mark in The Search and The Men. He neither patronizes his Italian civilians, typecasts his G.I.s nor falsifies his combat scenes, which prove as taut as any fiction footage yet shot about World War II. But the picture gets into trouble after it gets back to the U.S. The hero's psychological troubles and diagnosis fall as patly into place as in a clinical report. When the script attempts to show him growing up emotionally in time for a hopeful ending, the change is so drastically telescoped and hastily motivated...
...thunder. It shoots the plane forward and then upward as if a gigantic elevator were pulling it into the sky. As the plane rises almost vertically, the great flame shrinks to a small, bright point like a moving star. Then it blinks out suddenly; the fighter is at its search altitude, and the stealthy hunt has begun...
...continued: "The fundamental reason is that for Harvard to take the course you recommend would be to repudiate the very essence of what Harvard stands for--the search for truth by a free and uncoarced body of students and teachers...
Ewing and Press had long believed that disturbances in the air cause waves in the land and sea. In search of proof, they selected as a "laboratory test" the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, whose mighty bang sent air waves seven times round the earth. One chapter in a fat report by Britain's Royal Society recorded the progress of the volcano's air wave. Another clocked the sea wave, which swept across the Indian Ocean and was measured by tidal gauges as far away as Britain. Oddly enough, both waves were reported in many distant places, including the English...
...motives. They think the Department buys left-overs in unpopular flavors to get lower rates. This could not be so, because in wholesale quantities (the University bought 57,615 gallons last year) all flavors cost the same. Nor is the University trying to encourage the Hoods production department's search for new varieties in the hope of finding a formula everyone likes. It is merely trying to break the monotony of the meals...