Word: furs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tougher safety regulations governing U.S. railroads are a major goal of the National Transportation Safety Board, which has noted that derailments in creased by 71% between 1961 and 1968 (TIME, March 7). Last week the case for regulation was strengthened still fur ther when two more freight trains with potentially lethal cargoes jumped the tracks on the same...
...John Dillenberger of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union is prepared to admit that the movement also "cleared away some simple-minded notions of what the life of God means." Others find it a bit more significant. Lay Theologian Leslie Dewart, at the University of Toronto, thinks that any fur ther theology must now be done from "a new perspective, and a realization that the pre-certitudes are gone...
...interest in anatomical engineering by watching brewery horses pull their heavy load up the city's slopes. The lithe movements of the big cats, pacing their cages at Berlin's Tiergarten, riveted his attention for hours on end. Studying the exhibit on paleolithic man at the Museum fur Völkerkunde, he pondered the relationship between that brawny prehistoric arm and the stone ax it brandished at onlookers. After earning degrees in science and mechanical engineering, Tichauer decided to investigate for himself...
Though the film departs considerably from Gavin Maxwell's witty, eccentric book, it does manage to convey that peculiar love for a pet that can amount to an obsession. In addition, it provides the accepting child viewer with the prime requisites for motion pictures: 1) a star with fur, 2) adults who look foolish (as Merrill does when he tries, by flapping his arms, to teach a gosling to fly), and 3) no love scenes except those between otter and otter. The result is little otters, making Ring of Bright Water the best sex-education film ever...
...that one would wish children of their own on these dogged people. But they should know what they are doing, say to themselves over and over as they fondle the fur of their bouncey little puppy: "What I have here is (and I know it) a baby substitute...