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...terrain itself provides the ultimate drama, beauty and terror of the film: cascading rock-strewn rivers that can smash an outrigger like a coconut shell, the green deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...
...pilots -are to leave the country within 75 days through border posts controlled by the International Control Commission (India, Canada. Poland). Everyone doubts that the North Vietnamese will really give up the important strong points at Mahaxay and Tchepone, which control the supply route by which weapons and reinforcements filter to the Communist guerrillas in South Viet...
...orbiting astronauts, starting with Yuri Gagarin, saw a bright blue band around the earth. Carpenter looked more carefully through a special filter and saw two bands, the lower one made up of many colors-red, blue, white and a little green. The pictures that he took of the two bands are being analyzed at M.I.T., where they are considered important for the design of instruments to sense the edge of the earth and guide the return of home-bound future spaceships...
...ease the strain on Daddy's eyes on the long trip back home at night, the Vacha Glare-Guard has rectangular filters that clip on over ordinary eyeglasses or are worn on frames of their own. A slight forward tilt of the head banishes the dazzle of oncoming headlights by bringing a small filter tab into the line of vision, blocking out the glare while leaving a clear view of the driver's lane; the larger upper portions of the filters cut glare from overhead lights and rear-view mirrors. Filter tabs may be aligned to suit each...
...ROBERT McArEE BROWN, 41, Auburn professor of systematic theology at Union Theological Seminary. Presbyterian Brown, who will transfer to Stanford this fall, sees himself as a "filter through which the thoughts of the great pass on to the layman, the translator of topflight minds to those who haven't had three years in a seminary." A graduate of Amherst and Union Theological, he served as a Navy chaplain at the end of World War II. One of Brown's first teaching assignments, eleven years ago, took him to Macalester College in Minnesota, where he got to know...