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...leaves a weak and divided Korea, if it lets Red China into the U.N., it will serve notice on all Asians that the Communists are winning the struggle for Asia, and millions of Asians will drift to the Communist banner. But a Korean truce does not have to be that kind of truce, either in its terms or its enforcement...
...house mound in which they dug to the middle of a room. Upon their return last summer, they continued digging and found that the room was part of a five room house. The Eskimos, research revealed, lived in semi-subterranean houses, with sod block walls erected around frames of drift wood and whale bones. This form of building is unique at barrow, for most other Eskimo dwellings are single room houses of smaller size...
...Watteau of the Heart. The three drift gently down the garden path of self-deception in a bee-hum of amorous unrest then all at once Mahaut is stung to consciousness. With the realization that she loves François, she begs him to stay away. When he continues his visits anyway she confesses to her husband and begs him to save her. To her amazement, the count is not so much disturbed by her news as by the fact that she has shared it with François' mother. "It is absurd," he says We must find means...
Three dimensional films are an optical disillusion. In their present form, the Tri-Opticon Pictures premiered in New England last week are more suited to a science classroom that a Boston theatre. Two of the five shorts are cartoons-abstractions of lines and triangles which seem to drift from the screen to an audience squinting through special gray-tinted glasses. The effect is startling and impressive for a few minutes, then with a succession of dull and technically imperfect pictures, the wondering eye becomes increasingly strained. In a film of the Black Swan ballet, where leg movements are only...
...nearby buildings. It was a spectacular New Year's show. But within an hour, cheered on by their wives and children behind the police cordons, the firemen (volunteers, like all Chilean bomberos) seemed to be getting the blaze under control, and the watching crowds began to drift away again. Then the superintendent of an adjoining government warehouse rushed up to shout a warning: there were 1,214 Ibs. of dynamite stored in the building. Before he had even finished gasping out his story, flames inside the building reached the dynamite boxes, and it was too late...