Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week a dozen airplanes will start spraying 190,000 acres of the gold coast with malathion, a chemical that kills insects but is not deadly to humans, birds or animals. Jeeps with blowers will fog infested trees. The ground on infested property will be treated to kill the larvae as they enter the soil to pupate. Mop-up squads will catch straggling flies in traps baited with yeast...
...Arlington speech, the Army's Brucker reasserted the Army's right (bitterly disputed by the Air Force) to the long-range ballistics missile, goaded the Air Force by claiming that the Army's weapons are superior because they "are not limited in their effectiveness by fog, rain, snow or any other adverse condition." ¶ In Akron, Assistant Navy Secretary James H. Smith Jr., on the eve of an abrupt retirement to private life,*refrained from specific criticism of the other services, nonetheless ruffled Air Force feathers by assigning to the Navy a far more important strategic-bombing...
After a second short, Flying Padre, fared no better, Stanley persuaded his family to put up $50,000 for a full-length feature called Fear and Desire, a story of four soldiers lost behind enemy lines. Unable to afford expensive fog machines, Director Kubrick at one point produced an illusion of fog with a California crop sprayer, almost asphyxiated cast and crew in a mist of insecticide. The picture, praised by the critics for its "visual power," was drowned in a downpour of public inattention. Killer's Kiss came next, a story about a pug and a floozy; financed...
...Goya. Gropper is currently doing a series of prints entitled Capriccios, the way Goya did. The themes are aloofness, confusion, man being eaten by machines. when they don't look like Thomas Hart Benton, these prints take on a quality of pathos that is masterful. Figures in the Fog is one of the best...
...most important function of Nürnberg was the amassing of a vast amount of firsthand evidence on exactly what activated the Third Reich. It was Hitler's idea that the whole Nazi organization would, like millions of its victims, dis, appear into Nacht und Nebel (night and fog) if he failed, and to.this end, just : before the finish of World War II, the records of his infamous regime were deliberately and almost totally destroyed. The International Military Tribunal, by collecting surviving documents, confessions of leading participants and the evidence of witnesses and victims, was able to circumvent this...