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...unassumingly that at times the part seems to be playing itself, but afterward, a viewer realizes that he has seen the whole man in Bogarde's face: deception, cruelty, cunning, cynicism, the smirk of testing self-assertion, the pustular hurt of the man who feels that his rights exceed his definable estate, the essential weakness of the citizen slave...
...much as $80 per month, and while the Soviet Union has three times as much tillable acres of land as we have and a population that's in excess of ours and a great many resources that we don't have that, if properly developed, would exceed our potential in water and oil, and so forth. Nevertheless, we have one thing they don't have, and that is our system of private enterprise-free enterprise-where the employer, hoping to make a little profit, the laborer, hoping to justify his wages, can get together and make...
...disagreed with the contention of Dr. Graham R. Biaine, psychiatrist to the University Health Services, that undergraduates are not emotionally equipped to deal with sexual intercourse. Miss Greene suspected that the happy cases, which never came before Biaine, far exceed the unhappy ones. "I do not think sex necessarily leads to Dr. Biaine's coach...
...each meeting they attend, directors collect anywhere from $20 (American & Foreign Power) to $300 (Union Carbide). Some companies pay annual retainers, ranging up to General Mills's $10,000. But the responsibilities of sitting on a board usually exceed the rewards. "You couldn't hire many of these men for hundreds of dollars an hour," says American Motors Chairman Richard E. Cross. "They do it because they like business-the power and the thrust and the action...
Catching a Vacuum. An iceboat travels fastest across the wind-on what sailors call "a reach." Its speed results from the sail's efficiency as an airfoil -something like the wing on an airplane. Sailing directly downwind, an iceboat cannot exceed the wind's speed. On a reach, though, the wind produces a vacuum on the lee of the slightly slanting sail. This results in a strong forward force. As the sail pushes forward trying to eliminate the vacuum, an iceboat can attain fantastic speeds -up to five times the actual wind velocity. The ice sailor hauls...