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...world's record, rolls along at an easier 80 m.p.h. or so from Paris to Lyon. Together with Austria and Switzerland, the six Common Market nations offer what is probably the best overall railroad service in the world: a fleet of all-reserved, streamlined European expresses that connect 90 cities, average 70 m.p.h., have stenographers, stewardesses and Silberputzer to keep the chrome shining. Russia also is following the express trend, recently sent a special eleven-car train speeding 109 m.p.h. in a test between Moscow and Leningrad...
Robert Frost: "When you know Frost's poems you know surprisingly well what the world seemed to one man . . . to have this whole range of being treated with so much humanity and sadness and composure, with such plain truth; to see that a man can still include, connect, and make humanly understandable . . . so much-this is one of the freshest and oldest joys...
Along with the psychological dots that we individuals are supposed to connect, what has Resnais given us? The film not only lacks a plot ("Haven't I met you somewhere before?"--it's a mediocre line at a party), it has no characters. The leading man is reduced to a one-dimensional figure who stares intently at a girl. She scratches her right shoulder with her left hand ten or fifteen times, and turns away from his PIERCING glance...
...over each wheel is a springlike rubber cylinder filled with a "cocktail" of water and antifreeze. Thin tubes connect the front and rear cylinders. When a front wheel hits a bump, the shock compresses the front cylinder, which squeezes the fluid to the rear, expanding the rear cylinder...
Costing $1 million, the David Hoffman memorial laboratory will rise on Oxford St. and connect with the geological wing of the University museum, with houses classrooms, the geology library, and one of the most extensive collections of rocks and minerals in the world...