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...much-discussed story last year on non-books. This week's Education section has another such inspired exploration of a familiar but unrecognized phenomenon. Education Editor Robert Shnayerson got to thinking about the proliferation of organizations whose initials add up to a message-from CARE to CORE to SHAPE-and discovered that if the Greeks didn't have a word for it, they might have: acronyms. All this adds up to a recommended story this week, "The Acronymous Society." The way things are going, there will soon have to be a new society called BANE...
...brothers quarrel over a girl, and one of them rapes and eventually murders her, yet is forgiven. But the acting is pointlessly, if deliberately, melodramatic; the murderer needlessly apes a silent-film villain-slack jaw, rolling eyes and all. Whole episodes are unprofitably murky. A question at the core of the film -whether corrosive city is preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera is a carnivore, stalking for blood and bruised flesh, and the sight is fascinating. But it is like...
...airplane that hits this invisible turbulence would be slammed upward and downward as if it had flown through a miniature thunderstorm. A light airplane flying through the core itself, says Mc-Gowan, "can experience loading conditions that exceed the design ultimate load factors," i.e., can be torn apart. Although no supersonic airliners are flying yet, McGowan looks forward to their take-off with some trepidation. Their wake will be strong enough to knock the wings off a good-sized commercial airliner...
...down into the Corvair bracket. Long-ailing Buick and its new smaller Special model climbed from 2.5% to 4.1% of the market, thanks to less chrome and more performance. (One competitor calls Buick's mechanical performance this year "about the best in the industry.") Oldsmobile, with a loyal core of repeat buyers, inched up from 5.3% to 5-5%. though its smaller F85 model brought in only a disappointing 1.1%. Cadillac, more conservatively styled than in years past, remained the biggest-selling luxury car, increased its share of the market from...
From its Hong Kong base, Jardines reached deeply into China, laid some of the country's first major rail, lines and brought in Western products in exchange for Chinese silks, spices, teas and minerals. Traders to the core, Jardines' high-living taipans made a practice of getting along with whoever was in power in China -or any part of China. During World War II. British-owned Jardines continued to make beer at its Happy Harmony Brewery in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. When the Communists came, Jardines hoped to do business with them, played an influential part in persuading London...