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...future of entertainment." A peek at MacLaine's future shows Shirley and Actress Anne Bancroft appearing this fall in The Turning Point, a movie about former ballet mates who reunite after 20 years. Says Shirley: "If I could only do one thing at a time, it would exhaust me. The way I am happiest is to do preferably four things, but certainly no less than two and a half...
When the sensors inform the electronic brain that the engine has reached operating temperature (180° F.), that the auto is in third gear, has reached 45 m.p.h., and is not accelerating, the little box sends out a signal activating a key-and-slot device that locks the exhaust and intake valves shut and cuts off fuel to the affected cylinders. The pistons in these cylinders continue to move up and down, and the spark plugs fire, but no fuel is burned. The cylinders are not supplied with the fuel mixture as long as the driver maintains cruising speed...
What he really loves is his automobile. He overlooks his wife with her hair up in pink rollers, sagging into an upside-down question mark in her tight slacks. But he lavishes attention on his Mercury mistress, Easy Rider shocks, oversize slickers, dual exhaust. He exults in tinkering with that beautiful engine, lying cool beneath the open hood, ready to respond, quick and fiery, to his touch. The automobile is his love and his sport...
There, each batch was subdivided into minute quantities needed by the many specialists-bacteriologists, virologists, parasitologists, rickettsiologists (for microbes that cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever), hematologists, lexicologists, and veterinarians. All the lab scientists and technicians wore protective masks, gowns and gloves and worked under exhaust hoods. But it was not felt necessary to invoke use of the sanctum sanctorum, the "hot lab," where only the deadliest organisms known to cause fast, fulminating and fatal diseases are handled...
This finding adds fertilizer to the growing list of substances though to be harmful to the ozone layer, including SST exhaust, freon and related compounds and the agricultural gumigant methylbromide...