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...whims sent budgets and blood pressures skyrocketing, a brilliant burden who dragged everything down with his sagging box office appeal. In fact, there was more and more truth to the stories. In 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty almost literally lived up to its title when Brando worked against the grain of the production with an eccentric interpretation of Fletcher Christian, repeatedly overrode the director, invited himself to collaborate with the scriptwriter, insisted on a postlude about the subsequent lives of the mutineers, and generally cost MGM extra millions and perhaps a year in production time...
...asked by Mayor Paul Berger to turn back their thermostats to 68° until the shortages end. Public schools in Denver, Wichita, Kans., and Nebraska City, Neb., were either shut down or put on short hours for want of anything to put in the furnaces. In Illinois dozens of grain-elevator operators have been unable to buy gas, leaving heaps of undried grain in danger of rotting. In New York City, American Airlines and TWA converted some nonstop transcontinental flights into interrupted runs so that the planes could fuel up along the way. The schedule changes resulted from cutbacks...
...nuclear power plant here, but it was rejected by the voters," said Austin City Manager Dan Davidson. "This is an unfortunate education for our citizens that we must have a new source of energy." In Indiana, Senator Birch Bayh rushed to aid farmers by arranging an emergency shipment of grain-drying propane gas from New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. and Houston's Tenneco...
...Congress predictably did nothing, and Harry Truman, without major money or major support, set out on a whistle-stop campaign across the country. He lambasted Congress for the higher cost of living, for blocking low-rent housing, for failing to vote grain-storage bins. "Give 'em hell, Harry!" the crowds cried. The Democratic left had deserted to the third-party candidate, Henry Wallace, the South to Strom Thurmond's States' Rights party. Republican Candidate Thomas E. Dewey was calm, self-confident, and spent much of his time discussing his future Cabinet. Not until midmorning...
...similar to Ekta-chrome-EF; because lunar lighting conditions were uncertain, they wanted a fast emulsion. But for Apollo 17, the space agency decided to switch to another Kodak film that is somewhat slower (ASA rating of only 64 v. 160 for the earlier film), but has significantly less grain and better color reproduction. The gamble worked. The record 3,800 frames that were shot by the astronauts with their 70-mm. Hasselblads contained hardly a flawed exposure. What is more, even after being exposed to the vacuum of the moon, only a few of the 165 to 170 frames...