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...bells, both resulting in imperceptible vibrations of the building's walls, Kessel discovered another hazard that blurred his picture. The heat from the floodlights made warm air behind the painting push the canvas almost microscopically while his shutter was open. He finally prevented that by heating the painting beforehand with lights. The result was worth the effort: Italian art experts said that Kessel's results "succeeded for the first time in reproducing photographically Tintoretto's original colors as the artist himself must have seen them." ¶
...Bulganin, would pay an official (not a ceremonial) visit to Britain next spring. Eden predicted "valuable discussions" in the course of this "immensely important event." In the diplomatic gallery, Russian Ambassador Jacob Malik smiled down appreciatively. The British plan to call a conference of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers beforehand, so as to be able to talk to the Russians in the name of all the Queen's subjects...
...lined up three topflight Washington correspondents : Arthur Sylvester of the Newark News, James Reston of the New York Times and James Shepley of TIME. Meanwhile, Molotov laid down a condition for his appearance. Refusing to be freely questioned by the reporters, he demanded that all questions be submitted beforehand, and that the show consist of his prepared answers. Declining these terms, the newsmen insisted on the normal practice, i.e., that Molotov answer follow-up questions to clarify his answers to original questions. The reporters and the network pointed out that not even Secretary of State John Foster Dulles would...
...Rarely have I read such a vivid delineation of an author-poet or otherwise ... I have long disliked "modern poetry" and have avoided it like a plague-prejudiced beforehand, I admit...
Across the Wheat. Blackwell (pop. 10,000) felt uneasy beforehand. "You kind of kept wondering what it was you were worried or unhappy about," explained one resident. At 9:23 p.m. Pearl Joyce Peckham was standing on her front porch while a boy friend picked up hailstones rattling down from the dark sky. "The next thing I knew," she related, "he ran and grabbed me and said, 'My God, it's a tornado.' and there it was, right on top of us. It was dark, but this thing was much darker than the night. We ran into...