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...know tobacco best, there was plenty of evidence last week that the industry had completely recovered from the cancer scare that toppled sales in 1953-54. Philip Morris reported that first-quarter sales hit $80 million, up 11 % from the same period last year. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) said that first-quarter earnings this year will be better than the $13,565,000 made in the same period in 1956. The Department of Agriculture gaye solid support to this optimism: it estimated that Americans are smoking 9% more than a year ago, and predicted that...
...screenplay-which in fact is carved out of the Broadway play that Willingham carved out of his novel in 1953. The film begins at the climax of the play with a magnificent instance of what writers call a "blind lead." The moviegoer is asked to swallow a veritable camel of complex motive and movement, and to swallow it in the dark. For half an hour, while a massive and subtle scheme of revenge takes form before his eyes, the moviegoer has almost no idea what is really going on. But the suspense of wondering and the fun of guessing...
...room, the fragments are prepared for mounting. Those too brittle to be uncurled are placed in a humidifier until they are pliable enough to be pressed flat. Then they are cleaned of sand, mold and marl (a clayey sediment) with fine camel's-hair brushes, sometimes dipped in castor oil. Some are so delicate that special brushes of only a few hairs must be used; and these fragments bear warnings-Don't Touch or, occasionally, DON'T BREATHE...
...find the missing Anita Carroll. Iranian navy boats patrolled the Gulf of Oman to head off bandit attempts to escape into Pakistan. On the other side of the border, a Pakistani paratroop unit stood by. Prayers for Mrs. Carroll's safety were ordered in Iran's mosques. Camel riders streaked into the desert bearing Iranian government offers of $65,000 for her safe return. Military escorts were ordered for all American vehicles in the area, and more than 1,000 soldiers and gendarmes were deployed to comb the bandit haunts. U.S. and Iranian planes crisscrossed the desert...
...Fassi's battle for the Sahara sand is a picayune affair so far. Commandos of his liberation army, no longer needed to fight the French in Morocco, have been trucked down through the Rio de Oro and loosed in vast, sparsely settled Mauritania. Joined by turbaned camel riders who dearly love to fight, Moroccan irregulars have launched attacks on isolated French outposts, killed half a dozen French soldiers and burned a few French armored cars. North of Fort Trinquet last month there was a more serious clash in which, according to Moroccan reports, the French lost 22 men. Nevertheless...