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...first in her walk. Tall, her black hair close-cropped, she carries her lithe body with uncanny grace--an assurance that comes from years of hard labor. Naomi works in the kibbutz bee-hives. Clothed in stifling protective garments on searing Israeli afternoons, she sloshes rich, amber honey into pails. She is the only girl on the kibbutz who does it. It is work that many men cannot stand...
...Kosygin also gave the Robinsons a cigarette lighter and several objects of Baltic amber, including a cigarette holder for Dr. Robinson, a teetotaler who does smoke an occasional cigarette...
...happened quite accidentally. Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the world's foremost genetic researchers, was experimenting with an amber-colored South American fruit fly known as Drosophila paulistorum at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. He was interested in one particular strain of the fly from the Llanos district of Colombia, and he isolated it from other strains in 1958. Five years later he and his assistant, Dr. Olga Pavlovsky, routinely attempted to interbreed the Llanos flies with similar strains and observe the results of the mating...
...Hill, since Harlan has done superb work on other films, most notably Hawks' Rio Bravo. Hill's inability to fill the screen with anything attractive, let alone relevant, is Hawaii's coup de grace. Movies have survived mediocre scripts, but Hawaii is as cinematic as a fly preserved in amber, and that's the kiss of death...
...prove to be a new "countdown" traffic light that has been tested over an eight-month period in Abilene, Texas, and cut traffic accidents at a busy intersection by 44% . It looks like an ordinary traffic-light signal head. But twelve seconds before it is due to change, the amber light blinks a count down from nine to one at one-second intervals in 10-in.-high numerals that are visible for 200 ft. It then glows steadily amber for three more seconds before the signal turns...