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...Conrad wrote of the journey upriver to Stanleyville: "It was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on earth and the big trees were kings. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish...
Bird in a Storm. Stately and thick-chested, Scherchen on the podium was a study in the fine art of conducting technique. He held the orchestra in tight rein with an economy of direction, each hand working independently with machinelike precision. In climactic passages he carved the air with jabbing, slashing strokes of his baton while his left hand "danced like a bird caught in a storm. At other times he seemingly stared the musicians through their paces, intermittently striking cues with the suddenness of a judo chop...
...that produces positive images on film without a negative-an innovation potentially as important as the Polaroid process -and announced plans to introduce a Du Pont color film for home movies. > Brought out an unusually versatile plastic, Surlyn, which scientists can make either hard or soft, transparent or opaque, thick or thin simply by jiggering its ion content; it will be used in such varied products as packaging film, pipes, costume jewelry. >Embarked on an expansion project to enlarge its eight big textile plants and to launch a full-scale assault on foreign markets, where Du Pont is building seven...
Wouk described his hero as a cigar-smoking Kentucky coal trucker, huge, thick-featured and rustic, "a hulking sloven of twenty-six who had written an ugly bellowing dinosaur of a novel." In the slender person of James Franciscus, schoolteacher star of TV's Mr. Novak, Youngblood's red corpuscle count seems low. Down home, Mama Mildred Dunnock no sooner scolds him about "wastin' yur time scribblin' stories" than the phone rings. Long distance. A famous publisher is plumb crazy about his book. He heads for Manhattan, meets a fetching editor (Suzanne Pleshette) whose first...
...Thick, milky clouds piled high over Moscow, and a sharp northern wind stripped the last leaves from the birches...