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After exhaustive studies of both tunnel and bridge schemes, the group flatly favored a tunnel to be bored or dredged out of the chalk Channel bed. Plans for the bored tunnel actually call for two large parallel tunnels, each containing a single railway track, plus a small service tunnel. Stretching from Folkestone to Calais, the tunnels would run underwater for 23 miles. Autos and trucks would drive onto flatcars, be whisked through the tunnels at 60 m.p.h. by electric locomotives. Passenger and freight trains would be routed directly through the tunnels, cutting the train time from London to Paris from...
...appeared on TIME'S cover on July 9, 1951. By then his eyesight was far gone, and he had almost ceased doing any more drawing. But he obligingly availed himself of a large sheet of black paper (he could only see sharp contrasts), and with a piece of chalk drew the self-portrait that is reproduced here, along with several of his famous dogs...
...Mortimer 10-8, 4-6. 6-3. in the match that clinched U.S. victory. Only child of non-tennis-playing parents, soft-hitting Justina ranked only eleventh among U.S. women, and was noted primarily for her unspectacular retrieving game. But last week, her accurate placements kicking up puffs of chalk along the baseline. Lefthander Bricka ran Angela Mortimer so hard that the British player suffered leg cramps and had to withdraw from the final doubles match. To sew up the crucial third set-which retrieved the Wightman Cup that the U.S. lost in 1960-unheralded Justina Bricka needed just...
...Henry David Thoreau felt in July 1845 as he went into the woods at Walden Pond. He built himself a little cabin, largely out of secondhand materials, the cost of which he recorded in precise Yankee style: $28.12½, including a 10? latch and a penny piece of chalk. Thus he began his celebrated two-year sojourn in happy isolation. Last week. 116 years later, Thoreau would have been able to find his clump of woods easily enough, but not necessarily the solitude to permit him to drive life into a corner. The snort and belch of automobiles punctuate...
August 10 the group will stage the American premiere of Bert Brecht's A Man's A Man, translated by Eric Bentley. Hancock, who worked with Bentley last fall on Caucasion Chalk circle, will direct the Brecht play this summer...