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...frills climbed excitedly into the first asth matic automobiles. Bearded, droopy-eyed Edward VII took his cigar and his carnation to the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergere. Donning top hats, venturesome souls climbed nonchalantly into a balloon and blithely sipped champagne, up and up, to shiver in their stiff collars at the dizzy height...
...Molly's handicaps. The sound track seems to amplify every commonplace tune into a fugue for trip hammers. The red plush trappings of old Colorado, as Hollywood sees them, produce instant antipathy. And Broadway Leading Man Harve Presnell repeats his stage role with little more than stiff, strong-lunged precision...
Sheldon Dietz, a Square businessman, and one of the leading opponents of the destruction, said last night that the Coop's action "proved their disinterest in esthetics. They have violated city planning and architectural principles preached by their mother institution, and have been stiff-necked and inflexible in their commitment to their original bad plan...
California, which is the only crew with a reasonable chance to beat Harvard, has drawn less stiff opposition for the first heat. Cal's top rival should be the newly born Laconia "A" boat, an amalgam of the best rowers from several college crews in the east and midwest...
...been trying for years to get rid of its trapped pollution. Since 1957, the state Air Pollution Control District has prohibited the 1,500,000 backyard rubbish burners that produced 600 tons of acrid smoke a day. It extinguished dump fires, went after smoking factory chimneys, enforced a stiff set of regulations that kept oil refineries from letting more than a trickle of smoke and fumes escape into the air. These measures did some good. For one thing, they changed the color and character of the smog. Los Angeles smog is still maddeningly irritating to the eyes...