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...handling of the 1960 Algerian crisis. Gunther is even more successful with the elusive personality of Harold Macmillan, a fellow member of London's Bucks Club, who granted him a rare two-hour interview. In a revealing passage the author says that the Prime Minister talked "about the glow and throb of the England that was, the gallantry and peculiar innocent ardor, valor, of those lost, silken quivering days, and how a whole generation was cut off, sacrificed, exterminated...
What Shakespeare did work at creating is the romantic, sunny gaeity that pervades the fairy-tale forest of Arden (which is only one phoneme away from both Eden and ardor). At Stratford, currently, the idyllic glow is enhanced by Robert O'Hearn's scenery, Tharon Musser's lighting, and some of David Amram's music...
...remote control, and it worked perfectly. The Vostok began to lose speed, and shifted from its orbit into a transitional ellipse. Then it began to enter dense layers of the atmosphere. Its outer surface heated rapidly, and through the curtains that covered the portholes I saw the lurid crimson glow of the flames that raged around the ship. I was in a ball of fire plunging downwards, but inside the cabin the temperature was only...
...have to, and crops may be harvested in great windowless greenhouses, shut off from natural light. Scientists from Sylvania Electric Products Inc. are already preparing a substitute sun. Last week their laboratory at Danvers, Mass., was lit by a new fluorescent tube, its spectrum trimmed to a lavender glow that to plants is the light of life...
...plants, the new light seems twice as bright (gives off twice as much usable energy) as it does to humans. Bathed in its lavender glow, leaves look dark blue-green, and Electrical Engineer Joseph Roland Morin, head of the team that developed Gro-Lux, predicts a great future for the off-color plant lamp. Long before it lights up indoor farms, it may be a boon to commercial florists. "In 20 years," says Morin, "you won't see any more conventional greenhouses...