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Fossil Volcanoes. Geologists and oceanographers who look to the ocean's bottom have found that the ocean is a gigantic museum, where geological specimens are preserved like flies in amber. Among the most interesting of these geological fossils are the guyots, the flat-topped extinct volcanoes that dot the Pacific floor. How did they get down there, the oceanographer asks. Did their weight force them into the earth's crust, like corks pushed into putty? Did the ocean increase in volume and rise above them...
...sings the role of Bess while Dorothy Dandridge acts it. And the color photography gains a remarkable lushness through the use of filters, though in time -2 hr. 36 min., including an intermission -the spectator may get tired of the sensation that he is watching the picture through amber-colored sunglasses...
Wonderful Time. Her brothers, John and Lionel, also honored the family onstage. But even John, whose liquid offstage escapades lent gaudy luster to a theatrical generation, recognized amber-eyed Ethel as queen. With her, both boys were always chastened-properly formal and respectful. "My God!" exclaimed a friend after attending a typical family dinner. "Don't you know each other...
Barbican's architectural imagination captured public and professional critics alike. But Barbican's chairman, wise in the ways of bureaucracy, said: "Progress depends on whether there is a red light or a green light. What is important is that the lights should not be set forever at amber...
...rocket's instructions, which would control its course inexorably once it had left the pad. Each second of delay, Debus remarked, would cost an error of 17 miles at the distance of the moon. He studied the jeweled panels of lights. They had been green, red and amber. Now all were green...