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...Ginger hovered indecisively, Stormfury's scientific director, a soft-spoken meteorologist named R. Cecil Gentry, recommended an attack. Taking off from fields along the East Coast, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, 16 planes headed straight into the thick of the storm, the longest-lived hurricane on record. While instrument-packed planes monitored the tricky "bombing" runs, an Air Force C-130 transport and two U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder jets flying at 22,000 feet dropped hundreds of small explosive cylindrical canisters that sprayed tiny particles of silver iodide in the area outside the eye of the hurricane...
...sentiment for Latin turned up as well in a recent letter to the London Times, signed by 80 international figures, including Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, Author Graham Greene, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Opera Singer Joan Sutherland. The Latin rite, they argued, "belongs to universal culture as well as to churchmen and formal Christians...
Staying the Course. It was then up to Director Daniel Mann (Butterfield 8, The Rose Tattoo) to put the rats through their dramatic paces. He may well go down in cinematic history as the Cecil B. DeMille of rodent movies: the rats swarm through Willard as if they were born to stardom. There was one problem, though: getting enough rat shrieks for the sound track. With a watchful fellow from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in daily attendance, the sound men had to be crafty. One day, when the A.S.P.C.A. man was not looking, they...
...consumer movement and the environmental drive are having an impact not only on big executives but also on small shareholders. Consider the case of Robert Cecil of Holland, Mich. He owns some shares in Michigan General Corp., a diversified manufacturer. Cecil, one of those rare investors who scrutinizes his stock certificates instead of leaving them at the broker's office or a bank, was upset to discover that they bore the graven image of the Roman god Vulcan and a series of smokestacks spewing clouds of black smoke. Fuming, Cecil fired off a letter to the company...
...weeks. At four she was a trouper; at seven she was in movies. "Whatever I missed as a child," she once said, "I didn't mind missing." At 14 Bebe became Harold Lloyd's leading lady and at 18 achieved stardom after she signed with Cecil B. De Mille, later playing opposite Wallace Reid and Rudolph Valentino. She married Actor Ben Lyon, moved to London in 1936 and when war broke out, volunteered her services to the BBC. The first woman civilian to land in Normandy after the invasion, she interviewed G.I.s on the front lines. The couple...