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...human in the society of Spain. At 59, he scorns any ideal of military chivalry he once held. Love is a mockery and faith a nagging memory of trust betrayed. Even the gold is "only a metal" to him, but he pursues it as Ahab pursued the white whale. Just as Ahab was obsessed with the mystery of existence, Pizarro is haunted by the emptiness of being. Both are horrified by the blank, impersonal face that the universe turns to them. Played with stormy authority by Actor Christopher Plummer, Pizarro lashes his men through an ordeal of fire...
...material, Claiborne has trekked all across the country. Last month he got as far as Alaska, where he gamely tried boiled whale-a dish on which he delicately neglected to pass gustatory judgment...
...know how many books or parts of books were inspired by the course. Miller himself published articles and several anthologies from its material, one of them, The Legal Mind in America, a classic example of the "creative" anthology; he also wrote one book, The Raven and the Whale, from these researches, but that was incidental to his main purpose. As a major work, he planned a continuation of his early books on the New England mind and Jonathan Edwards, to be called The Life of the Mind in America...
...Whale of a Plane. Enough space-inspired products have already reached the marketplace to prove that every tax dollar invested in space will multiply many times in the economy. From the lightweight plastics that were first developed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for use in missiles, North American Car Corp. now makes railway tank cars that weigh only one-half as much as steel cars. New metals developed by space researchers and subcontractors, notably the titanium alloys, are coming into use in oil refineries, where corrosive chemicals destroy ordinary steel valves. Space research has taught General Electric better...
Research has led, too, to the development of special transportation equipment to move rockets and other hard ware over long distances. To transport stages of the huge Saturn rocket, California's Aero Spacelines designed a whale-shaped turboprop plane called "the Super Guppy"; its 22½-ton capacity can accommodate huge computers, oil-well rigs and helicopters. Another major growth area is space-age sealants: G.E. is selling sealants, developed for the seams of spacecraft, for use in caulking bathroom tiles; General Motors is sealing windshields and rear windows with a product made by Thiokol from solid rocket fuel...