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Eighteen months after the publication of his book on slavery, "Time on the Cross," the controversy surrounding Robert W. Fogel, Burbank Professor of Political Economy and professor of History, has not died down. Recent weeks have even seen a distinct heating up of the scholarly polemic...
...Burbank, Calif...
...that soaring rhetoric on peace that comes prepackaged with a presidential tour abroad, the nation's destiny-and Ford's-ultimately rests on what happens in New York, Detroit, Chicago and even Burbank...
Everybody knows that Billy Graham is a great showman who can fill arenas in most cities of the world, but few realize that the evangelist is also something of a movie mogul. His Burbank studio, World Wide Pictures, has turned out 101 films over the past 25 years, many of them pedestrian one-reelers, some of higher quality. Graham's latest, The Hiding Place, which is being previewed in eleven cities this spring, is a totally new departure. A 145-minute color spectacular with two award-whining stars, Julie Harris and Eileen Heckart, it boasts 2,000 extras...
Working in a leaky old building in Burbank, Calif., the novice engineer soon won his designing wings. In 1938 he almost singlehanded persuaded the R.A.F. to order Lockheed's Hudson bomber. In a series of all-night sessions at the drawing board, he completely redesigned the plane to meet British specifications. At that time he was also working on what would become one of the most celebrated U.S. fighter planes in World War II, the twin-boom P-38 Lightning, which awed Luftwaffe pilots called der Gabelschwanz Teufel (Fork-Tailed Devil). Even before the first Lightning took off, Johnson...