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...story of Ammouda was a story of tanks-obsolescent, underpowered, British 18-ton Centaurs, packing puny 50-mm. pieces. In order to get them into position, a tank recovery team went first with a crane mounted on a U.S. Sherman chassis. The Sherman scrabbled up the steeper slopes, then towed up the Centaurs with its power winch. Out of seven Centaurs, two finally made the grade. Two got stuck a few hundred yards from their goal, and one blew its tracks on a mine. Getting the tanks down again for another sortie was almost as hard as getting them...
...professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...
...Manhattan's East Side one day last week, a 2,000-lb. steel ball swung from a towering caterpillar crane, smashed into the base of a brick wall. Bricks and girders came thundering to earth in a billowing cloud of pink dust. The building under demolition was one of the last five remaining on the site of U.N.'s future headquarters...
Sleepy Hollow (based on Washington living's Legend of Sleepy Hollow; book & lyrics by Russell Maloney, Miriam Battista and Ruth Hughes Aarons; music by George Lessner; produced by Lorraine Lester) is passably tuneful and monumentally tedious. Washington Irving's famous yarn of lanky, spindle-necked Ichabod Crane-who was as ill-starred in love as in looks and was chased into immortality by the Headless Horseman-would seem likely material for a musical. It comes equipped with standard light-operatic fixtures: period atmosphere, picturesque locale, broad humor, folkish fantasy; it seems a cinch to wire for dancing...
...signers were: Henry D. Aiken, Gordon W. Allport, Thelma G. Alper, Robert F. Bales, Herschel Baker, Bart J. Bok, C. Crane Brinton, Jerome S. Bruner, John A. Ciardi, Albert S. Coolidge, Frederick B. Deknatel, John P. Elder, Merle Fainsod, Irving G. Fine, Wendell H. Furry, Myron P. Gilmore...