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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playing as if he meant to win the game all alone, Texas A. & M.'s John Crow blasted his way through a rugged S.M.U. line all afternoon, broke up its last-ditch offense and hove into the clear as one of the best backs in the country. Final score: Texas A. & M. 19, S.M.U...
High energy is not the only requirement of a fuel and its oxidant. Also desirable are cheapness and availability. High density is important for keeping down the rocket's size and frontal area. Ease of ignition is almost a must. The best combinations are "hypergolic," igniting spontaneously as soon as mixed. Bad qualities to be avoided are toxicity, corrosiveness, heat instability (exploding when hot) and a tendency to evaporate like liquid oxygen. No fuel is perfect. Beryllium compounds might be good if beryllium were not so scarce and so poisonous...
...Wyeth was an illustrator; for decades before his death in an auto crash in 1945, he was the best illustrator in the country. An age that tends to value "composition" (meaning, roughly, an apparent rhythm, repetition and balance of lines and colors, comparable to harmonious music) above all else tends to belittle illustration (which subordinates all other values to imaginative drama). Yet, historically, illustration is half of art, and the greatest paintings of Europe have been illustrations of classical mythology and the New Testament...
...Frederic Remington, from turn-of-the-century impressionism to strict realism of the sort practiced by his son. His "easel pictures"-landscapes and figure pieces done for pleasure between illustrating assignments-were his worst. As some men can dance well only to brilliant music, Wyeth painted at his best only when inspired by a timeless tale...
Cabiria (Lopert) is the best of the Italian contributions, remarkable chiefly in the story it tells. "Vieni qua," says the famed Italian actor (Amedeo Nazzari). The shabby little streetwalker (Giulietta Masina) can hardly believe her ears, but she jumps into his flashy American car, and they drive to his villa, a California! creation on the Appian Way. "Where do you live?" he asks her idly, as she nibbles at caviar and lobster in his overpoweringly seductive apartment. "Oh," she answers him, dazed with all the magnificence and trying desperately to live up to it, "I'm not like...