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...Indonesian civil war, the main problem has been to find the war. With no defined front line in vast Sumatra-more than twice the size of Korea-most of the skirmishes between the rebels and President Sukarno's government have been as haphazard as blind man's buff...
Zoom Lens. Bell & Howell put on sale a new zoom-lens attachment for 16-mm. home movie cameras with which the camera buff can change focal length from wide-angle to normal to telescope with the turn of a handle, enabling him to keep right on shooting while switching from closeups to long or panoramic shots. Electric Rug. A carpet pad that can be plugged in like an electric blanket to supply radiant heating in mild climates will be marketed by Britain's Thermalay Ltd. Developed after 18 months of research by electrical engineers and textile...
Last week, with the school covered in a fresh coat of buff paint, the painter hung up a sign saying, "Decorating by George T. Smith, 1309 Clifton St., N.W.," and left for good. But who was George Smith? And who had sent him? The supervisor of repairs, who had once noted that the painter was violating safety regulations by standing on a ladder (rather than a window jack), did not know; nor did the principal or any of the teachers. Finally, the Washington Post decided to find...
...wartime enemy-made films, e.g., Japan's own record of the attack on Pearl Harbor. From a onetime lady-in-waiting at the Czarist court, whom he found in New Jersey, Stuart once got 8,000 precious feet of royal family life, including the Czar swimming in the buff. Sometimes unusual film gets scrapped. Example: a shot of Charlie Chaplin doing a little jig for visiting Winston Churchill in Hollywood in 1929. Twentieth Century Producer Burton ("Bud") Benjamin reluctantly threw it out of his hour-long show on Churchill (TIME, Oct. 28) because "it had no place...
...With tensely whispered commentary by Announcer Jim Britt. the games drum up genuine suspense, made somehow more tantalizing by the fact that the results are foreordained on film shot far in advance. But the producers have succumbed to only one request for advance screenings by a golf buff who could not bear the suspense. Dwight D. Eisenhower had seen all the shows before he left for Paris last week...