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Amidst the dry, gum-tree scrub of Rum Jungle, 60 miles inland from the Timor Sea, miners clad only in boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot...
...suit deliberately admits water, but fits snugly enough to prevent it from circulating. After the diver's body warms this thin layer of water, the suit prevents heat loss to the surrounding depths. The "dry" suit is usually made of thin gum rubber, is in theory (but seldom in fact) watertight...
Maggie Rudkin speaks from experience. The attractive, red-haired wife of Henry Rudkin, a prosperous Wall Street broker, she lived a life of ease and social grace on their Pepperidge Farm (named after pepperidge, or black gum, trees on the property) near Fairfield, Conn. Then in the mid-1930s, the youngest of her three sons became ill with asthma. An admitted "nut on proper food for children," Mrs. Rudkin knew that asthma is an allergy, was nonetheless convinced that she could help her son by building him up. She dug out a whole-wheat-bread recipe left by her Irish...
...start most migrations, but the new westward stream, especially to the resort area just east of Phoenix, was started in the '30s by rich men. Among them: Cleveland Inventor John C. Lincoln, who built the now-famous Camelback Inn on the lower slopes of Camelback Mountain; Chicago Chewing Gum Magnate William Wrigley, who founded the fabulous Arizona Biltmore and started a golf course colony nearby; International Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick, who went a little farther east into Paradise Valley to start what is now the richest winter residential area in the state...
...really say anything about music is to write music." To Bernstein, the flute included by Beethoven in an early version of the Fifth Symphony's opening is like "a delicate lady at a club smoker"; The Black Crook, an early musicomedy, is held together with "spit and chewing gum"; tonality is analogous to a baseball diamond (with home plate as the tonic note); the opening of the third act of La Boheme is a series of "cold, empty fifths, raining like snowflakes over the stage...