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...energy accelerator. Even for a well-schooled and successful engineer, this would have been the height of presumption, but he got a polite and considered reply from California scientists. He was all wrong, they said, and they told him why. "They were right," he admits now. "My calculations were crude. There were things I didn't know...
...striking International Woodworkers of America, set on intercepting non-I.W.A. loggers. When the I.W.A. halted a sedan to threaten the four passengers in it, the Mounties radioed Grand Falls for help. More Mounties and provincial constables rushed to the scene. Police night sticks and loggers' crude clubs swung through the chilly air. Provincial Constable William J. Moss, 24, caught a blow on the head from a birch club, died in a hospital 30 hours later of a fractured skull and brain injuries...
...feeling of religious awe pervades the place. But anthropologists incline to believe that it was used not as a center of worship but of mere hunting magic. The so-called "realism" of the pictures baffles scholars, because thousands of years later, the Cro-Magnon's successors drew only crude symbolic pictographs. One possible explanation: the paintings are not deliberate copies of the animals but swift tracings of visions such as children see in a flickering fire. Painted by firelight, often one atop another, they have the look of fire shadows. Conceivably the Cro-Magnon artists painted just what they...
...President extended the voluntary program till March 10, while he and his special Cabinet committee on oil imports study the OCDM recommendations. These are reported to include a limit on imports of crude oil and other petroleum products of 1,025,000 bbl. daily, compared to 1,113,600 bbl. daily under the voluntary system. The compulsory scheme would be enforced by a Government administrative agency. Other recommendations made by OCDM reportedly call for1) a sliding scale of import quotas for smaller oil companies, based on the imports between March1 and Sept.1, 1958; 2) no cuts of more than...
Even the drawing in Sleeping Beauty is crude: a compromise between sentimental, crayon-book childishness and the sort of cute, commercial cubism that tries to seem daring but is really just square. The hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon. The plot often seems to owe less to the tradition of the fairy tale than to the formula of the monster movie. In the final reel it is not a mere old-fashioned witch the hero has to kill, but the very latest model of The Thing From...