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...WALTER MAHONEY, majority leader in the state senate. He has not appeared before the S.L.A. on behalf of a client for some time, but other members of his Buffalo law firm have. One client got permission to open a liquor store in a Rochester shopping center, although the S.L.A. normally refuses to license locations in shopping centers...
...Buffalo, it runs a $15 million-a-year aeronautical research lab. In Manhattan, it boasts one of the top medical colleges in the country. From India to Peru, it counts 1,500 aid and research projects, including the world's largest radar (for ionosphere study), abuilding in Puerto Rico. Scholarly names dot the faculty of 1,650-Physicist Hans Bethe, Astronomer Thomas Gold, Critic Arthur Mizener, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian literature in Ithaca while writing Lolita...
...industrial worker has fared the best under Nasser. Next to him comes the fellah, the timeless peasant working the timeless land. It was the jest of 1952 that Nasser's foremost ambition was to raise the fellahin at least to the living standard of the gamoosa, the water buffalo of the Nile. He has more than succeeded. You can see it simply in the fellah's clothes. But also the fellah, who used to have meat only once or twice a year, now eats it at least once a week...
...lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall at the bottom of a cave. Raymond Massey is, for what seems like the four-score-and-tenth time, Abraham Lincoln. Gregory Peck is a tinhorn gambler, Robert Preston a roaring wagon master, Henry Fonda a walrus-mustached buffalo hunter...
...avalanche of buffaloes comes pounding down on a railroad camp. Cinerama's seven-channel stereophonic speaker system takes over with an earthquaking rumble that sweeps through the theater and seems to shake the balcony from its moorings. Cameras in pits recorded the scene, and the results include a moment of pure impressionist cinematography: the huge screen goes black except for a dancing fringe of buffalo hoofs silhouetted along the bottom...