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...Hunt. A burgeoning new school of camera-wise Spaniards enters a sturdy claim for recognition in this spare, gruesome drama about a quartet of upper-crust Spanish hunters-three middle-aged malcontents and a wealthy young sprout-who slaughter rabbits for sport. The cool mechanics of death are recorded in some of the most grisly hunt scenes ever filmed, and during a long, hot afternoon the lust for killing slowly grinds toward a fitting climax. Boozing and broiling in the sun, the men try to buy, sell and slander one another. The hair triggers of anxiety touch off frustrations over...
Despite his general indictment of tree-caused air pollution, Went also had a kind word for the tree's byproduct. Some of the important organic deposits in the earth's crust, such as petroleum and bituminous coal, he says, may well have come from arboreal air pollutants gradually deposited on earth by falling rain and snow...
Died. Felix Vening Meinesz, 79, Dutch geophysicist who spent years in submarines measuring variations in the earth's gravitational pull, then developed a widely accepted theory of the origin of continents based on currents in the molten material below the crust of the earth, winning many honors, among them a Doctor of Science degree from Columbia University, which cited him as "a Jules Verne come to life"; of complications following a fall; in Amersfoort, The Netherlands...
...lack of these, many Indians are pessimistic about the future. "Everyone is' waiting for the Americanization of India," says Essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, "but what they are going to get is the Hinduization of industry." Such critics fear that modernization is by no means inevitable; a thin, progressive upper crust might continue to live side by side with a vast, impoverished mass...
...irrationality as for their deliberate calculations. They see Cambridge as a community without coherence or distinguishing characteristics. They wish there were a greater degree of homogeneity among different elements. Instead, they accept the inevitability of periodic conflict, and see the University, associated as it is with the upper class crust of the City, as a major component of the bipolar alignment that has traditionally characterized Cambridge: "the Brattle Street crowd" versus everybody else...