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Cordell & Old Hulls. Surveying his vast sets for The Fall of the Roman Empire, vaster eight times over than the sets of Cleopatra, he suddenly becomes Cordell Bronston. "This moving picture," he says, "which covers less than two decades of history 18 centuries old, will be particularly significant and meaningful today when our greatest leaders seek to revive the Pax Romana in a disorderly world." "Bronston's simplicity and naivete are amazing," says Actor James Mason, "and he comes through it all with great success. He's like a little boy who never doubts his daydreams will come...
Last week in Delaware's U.S. District Court, Du Pont was fighting to protect its far vaster investment ($50 million) in another product, Delrin, a remarkably hard and versatile plastic that, since it was introduced in 1960. has begun to replace zinc, aluminum and steel in products ranging from water pumps to auto dashboards and clothespins. The defendant in Du Pont's patent infringement suit is Celanese Corp, of America, which recently began to market a plastic called Celcon (pronounced "Sell-con"). Both are acetal polymers and derive from formaldehyde. Both have a high resistance to chemicals, abrasion...
...totality of man and the world." In contrast, Christianity has shrunk until it has become little more than "a support to our weakness, companion to our loneliness, counselor to our neuroticisms, and heavenly confirmer of our national purpose." What is needed is an all-encompassing Christian vision-"truer, vaster and tougher than the Marxist vision," with a core of spirituality illuminating "economics, politics, and all other areas of human affairs...
...Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines will be great enough to lift the plane off 6,000-ft. runways with a 50,000-lb. load, making it possible to fly in and out of fields all over the world. It will fly the Atlantic with a 60,000-lb. load, the vaster Pacific with a 20,000-lb. load. The plane will be built at Lockheed's Marietta, Ga., plant where the workforce had been cut in half to 10.000 in the last three years and was going lower. Now, at least, it will slip no further...
...seven years since the fighting stopped. North Korea has become some-thing of a showcase (with plenty of window dressing) for Communism in Asia. Pyongyang (pop. 800,000) has a Stalin Allee just like East Berlin's, a vast opera house and a vaster sports stadium. Forests of swinging cranes constantly add to the number of workers' apartment houses. The national emblem is a flying horse that decorates everything from matchboxes to tractors: the horse is supposed to be charging toward socialism at 300 miles a day. Premier Kim II Sung's* proclaimed ambition is to "reach and pass Japan...