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...spectacular vault of 16-ft. in the former event, while co-captain Dan Sullivan Fosbury-flopped his way over the bar at 6-ft., 8-in. to triumph in the latter. Senior Chris Queen put the shot 54-ft., 7.5-in. to complete the Crimson's clean sweep afield...
...guess, it is fa miliarity with the social usages of his na tive England and the accumulated non sense of the medium in which he works that generate the affectionate, and effective, contempt animating the first portion of Feldman's film. Even when he and it move further afield, following the disgraced Beau into his North Af rican exile as a legionnaire, there's some amusing game afoot. Peter Ustinov, as a sadistic sergeant, is equipped with a movable scar - not unlike Feldman's shifty hump in Frankenstein - and the director has given Ustinov and his horse...
...industrial use, managed for the most part to avoid serious disruption of residential service. Utilities reported gratifying householder response to appeals from President Carter to dial down thermostats. In Chicago's North Shore residential area, consumption fell by as much as 15%. Nonetheless, hard-pressed utilities shopped far afield for additional supplies. A representative of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., one of the nation's largest pipeline companies, prowled corporate corridors in Houston cornering utility men and offering to swap heating oil for Texas natural gas. A consortium of New York State power companies arranged for an extra...
When a New Yorker editor makes White's "fresh" into "afresh," the author fumes: "My characters will hence forth go afishing, and they will read Afield & Astream. Some of them, perhaps all of them, will be asexual...
That will not leave Laumer much profit. To hold down labor costs to $2,000 per car, he employs his son, two daughters, a son-in-law and a master mechanic. But he contracts out all upholstery and painting work for another $2,000, and reaches far afield for authentic parts. The spare-tire mount comes from Argentina, for instance, the speedometer from the U.S.S.R., a water pipe from South Africa; Laumer gets only the chassis and a few other parts in the U.S. All together, the parts cost more than $5,000 per car, though Laumer hopes...