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...Pearson has improved on a standard Bensen design, added a four-bladed propeller, a muffler and ground brakes-an uncommon feature on home-built helicopters. Explains Pearson: "If you haven't got brakes, you have to spin the prop, then jump in the seat quick to keep the beast from running away...
This is animal week at the Brattle. The hero of The Colt is, of course, as awkward a spindly-legged beast as ever pranced across the screen at a Saturday matinee. This should have tipped me off as to the identity of Mumu, but my suspicions began to subside as the second film got through half its length without paying undue attention to any of the barnyard animals that lurked in the background. But, finally, Mumu turned out to be a puppy, and vindicated my hypothesis...
...lemur, a bush baby, a wildcat, a rail, five wild geese, a dozen tropical birds, a goat that jumped on the kitchen table, and a cow that strolled upstairs one day and almost gave birth on the landing. Otters, he proclaims in this lyric celebration of the beast he loved the best and of the wild Scottish coast they romped along together, are the greatest...
...Congress, evidently, has grown used to considering this pathetic beast the lean and speedy little greyhound that was the Marshall Plan. Those Appropriations Committee members who have the hallucination are likely to find the President's brilliant new five-year-old appropriation plan an annoying and unnecessary demand. Before their more sensible colleagues will want to approve of long-range development assistance, they will have to get familiar with a concept decades old in theory: precise and careful economic planning...
...Japan and Western European nations to contribute an annual one per cent of their gross national products to overseas assistance. The OECD, which will employ the world's best planning minds, will react very rudely to the prospect of handling America's funds through the old and clumsy beast...