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Among them all, as the camera watches, moves man: an animal among animals, swallowed in nature's hungry womb, nourished with nature's wisdom and delight. Like dye stains through a tissue, the patterns of nature seep through African society. The force of the volcano imbues the man who smokes a pipe. The passion of the wooing crane inflames the maid who imitates its mating dance. The example of the hornbill, a bird that jealously mud-walls its mate in a tree for as long as three months at a stretch, is incorporated in the marriage laws...
...placed an entire airplane in a huge mechanical jig, is literally shaking it to test its vibration tolerances. A whole wing section complete with engines has been taken off the production line, is being twisted and bent to destruction to check its strength. All critical parts are being dye-tested for surface cracks, X-rayed for hidden flaws in the metal. Most rugged test of all: Lockheed pilots are flying a minutely instrumented Electra through the extremely turbulent "Sierra wave'' over California's Sierra Nevada mountains, are slamming into the wind-shears at high speed...
...just intimidated was not a Negro but a white. He was John Howard Griffin, 39, Dallas-born author (The Devil Rides Outside) on assignment for Sepia magazine, a Negro monthly (circ. 61,975) published in Fort Worth. His skin darkened by pills,* ultraviolet treatment and vegetable dye, his straight brown hair shaved to the poll, he was touring the Deep South to see how it felt to wear the black man's skin. In the current issue of Sepia, in the first of five installments. Griffin began telling what it was like...
...moon, given an entirely different calendar, how will Jewish astronauts be able to tell the eve of holidays? 2) How will they perform the monthly sanctification of the New Moon, being themselves on the moon? 3) What color will they dye the ends of their prayer shawls-blue on earth, to denote the color of the sky-when the lunar sky is black? Answers: Jews on the moon (or anywhere) are earthlings, must act according to terrestrial time and custom...
...baby foods come to the mother in flake form in envelopes, need only be stirred into hot water. Says Mortimer: "The nutrition is as perfect as can be. And the peas are so green that we have to explain to the mothers that we haven't added dye." As part of its new Horizon line, General Foods is testing a partially dehydrated spaghetti casserole that can be eaten on Friday by Catholics because its "meat" is actually made of soybeans. "It has everything," beams Mortimer, "including religion...