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...glorious late-afternoon California sunshine. A short time after the earth starts to shudder, the huge, 20,000-sq.-mi. land mass west of the San Andreas fault wrenches itself free from the continent. San Francisco is quickly reduced to piles of rubble, the Golden Gate and Bay bridges col lapse, skyscrapers topple like children's blocks, the freeways crumple into bent, twisted auto graveyards. The lush Imperial and San Joaquin valleys are in undated by floods unlike anything since the days of the Ark. Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego all disappear beneath the rampaging Pacific. More...
...Inner Fire. A gangling 6 ft. 2 in., Williamson burns with incandescence and carries with him the smell of smoldering cordite. If he were not lit with inner fire, he would be sin gularly unprepossessing. Alan Brien, col umnist of the London Sunday Times, once described him as having "eyes like poached eggs, hair like treacle tof fee, and a truculent lower lip protruding like a pink front step from the long pale doorway of his face...
...medium. At the Auguste Clot print shop in Paris, where Munch perfected his technique, he had to draw on lithographic stones, which were generally smaller than the canvases he used. Moreover, the presses of the day were only equipped to reproduce three or four elementary (and usually plain garish) col ors. Thus Munch had to stay with simple, intimate compositions-in which his natural gifts for boldness and symbolism were dramatized...
...Boston Globe, for perpetuating the myth that the Professor of Military Science (Col. Pell, in case anyone missed his name) is my boss. The Globe noted that the PMS is ". . . the commander of Harvard's ROTC units." Col. Pell does not represent the United States Air Force in any capacity; I represent the USAF at Harvard...
...statement runs counter to Col. Robert H. Pell's assertion that the Faculty's action would drive ROTC from Harvard. At a press conference following the Faculty meeting, Pell, commanding officer of Harvard's Army ROTC unit, said that without academic credit, it would be difficult--maybe impossible--to keep the units operating...