Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking as the film is visually, Producer Disney cannot resist gilding it with sentiment. Twelve times in the past ten years he has sent teams of crack camera crews into the world's boondocks to record the behavior of lesser-known animals and plants. Twelve times, e.g., in The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie, the teams have returned with trunkloads of painstakingly gathered film, much of it unique. And twelve times Disney has taken the film and glued onto it a cloying narration and a sound track that often seems loudly superfluous. Even as the lemmings plunge crazily toward...
...March Gomulka abruptly halted the distribution of millions of dollars' worth of welfare packages from Catholics abroad until the church would agree to let the government supervise the distribution. Finally last month, perhaps because of pressure from Moscow and his Communist colleagues, Gomulka decided to crack down in earnest. For its first show of force, the government chose the 600-year-old fortress-monastery of Jasna Gora, the most sacred of Poland's holy shrines...
...with its showing. He is blunt, able U.S. Oil Geologist Walter Link, 56, once chief geologist for Standard Oil (N.J.), who was lured out of semi-retirement in 1955 by a tax-free salary of $100,000, plus the promise of a free hand. He has put together 15 crack geologic field parties, ten gravimeter and 15 seismographic crews, 36 wildcat rigs. But so far he has not found a single economically operable well outside of Bahia, despite the fact that Brazil has some 1,350,000 sq. mi. of potential sedimentary deposits. The big snags are a mile...
...twelve, she qualified for the 1956 Olympic trials, just missed becoming the youngest girl ever to make the team. She and Haines promptly embarked on a four-year program aimed at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, where Chris may get a crack at Australian Stars Lorraine Crapp, Dawn Fraser and lisa Konrads. Beginning this fall, Chris will get up every weekday at 5:30 a.m., get to the pool by 7 for a go-minute workout, return for two more hours after school. Evenings, she will concentrate on homework to maintain her straight-A average at Los Gatos High School...
OLDER U.S. WHISKY will finally get a crack at luxury markets, long dominated by Scotch (and some Canadian brands), if all goes well. Senate Finance Committee voted 9-2 to allow domestic distillers to hold whisky in tax-free storage up to 20 years (current limit: eight years), and full Congress is expected to approve. Biggest gainer will be Schenley Industries, which holds by far largest stock of whisky older than six years...