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...enough, Schulte is also taking on the German farmer, one of the country's most powerful political blocs. Tempted by the backward production and marketing practices of egg producers, he bought a chicken farm last February and started applying his methods to the hens. By installing automatic feed conveyor belts and coop cleaning machinery, Schulte has sharply reduced his work force. He has built up a flock of 80,000 hens that lay as many as 50,000 eggs a day−thus making himself West Germany's largest egg producer...
Then Zorba goes to town on business and squanders his boss's money on prostitutes and drink. Finally, he convinces Bates to give up the mine and go into the number business. He constructs in elaborate conveyor system at much expense to carry down food from a near-by mountain. Naturally, the system collapses. At the very end, Bates now completely broke, dances a silly dance on a deserted beach with is trusted friend, Zorba...
...late Senator Joseph McCarthy, were a factor in the acrimonious Army-McCarthy hearings of the early 1950s. Son David also created controversy in Schine Industries. He quarreled with managers at the Roney Plaza, lost money on several ventures, including an indoor ski slope that operated on a carpeted conveyor belt. He has not been company president since 1963, when his father took the job back himself...
Actually, they are the same Czech, appearing in Czechoslovakia's unique Laterna Magika at a Munich theater. Using ten screens of assorted sizes, five projectors, 21 technicians, 17 performers and two conveyor belts, Laterna Magika achieves a series of kinetic marvels that leaves the Germans jawohling in the aisles. Actors on the boards engage in dance and dialogue with actors on the screens, mingling reality and illusion, adding to the stage the weightless ease of movies and to the movies the presence of theater...
...Pietà's flawless marble is shielded from spectators by an almost invisible Lucite sheet that can deflect a .45-cal. bullet. Visitors are drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...