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Emotional Wave. In the afternoon the body, seated in a chair on a four-wheel cart, was drawn through the streets by Telugu schoolboys waving lengths of black silk, beating their chests and crying, "Madras city is ours." At the crematorium, the frail body was washed in rose water and burned on a pile of sandalwood while Hindu priests recited the funeral service and Telugu politicians thundered to the mourning mob that they would never give up Madras city...
...caves with their pictures. The last true wild horses were found in the 1880s by the Russian explorer Przewalski. But the shaggy animals which Przewalski brought back from Dzungaria were heavy-boned, with long and awkward heads. They may well have been the ancestors of today's cart horses. There are some Przewalski horses still living in the Hellabrunn Zoo, and Dr. Heck began his experiments in backward breeding with them...
...course between slapstick and social satire. The picture not only provides Guinness with a subdued, well-rounded characterization but also gives him an opportunity to indulge in a full measure of comedy falls-from hurtling headlong into a canal atop a careering van to racing around in an old cart behind a runaway mule. Glynis Johns as a dancing teacher and Valerie Hobson as the countess stroll attractively through their roles. One of the Bursley townsfolk remarks of Denry: "He's a rare 'un . . . But what's he done? Has he ever done...
...products of National Cash Register Co. are as familiar as Coca-Cola. National machines tot up their bills, figure the payrolls, keep charge accounts straight. They are operated by Eskimos in the Arctic Circle, by Fuzzy-wuzzies in Africa; they are packed by llamas in the Andes, by camel cart in Pakistan. And the machines ring up sales in shillings, drachmas, piasters, kroner, yen, francs and even Russian kopecks...
...window washer's delight. Each one is surrounded by an air-filled rubber tire. When the air is let out, the window spins on its axis for easy cleaning. After washing, the tires are blown up again from a small compressed-air tank trundled around on a cart...