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...years at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House this month, is to make folk dance seem almost aristocratic in spirit. What country commoners could ever attempt, let alone master, those split-second polka whirls and partner changes, those muscle-straining priziadkas done at trip-hammer speed, those leaping, Olympic-height splits? This is dancing performable only by a gifted few-a disciplined and rhythmic elite of superbly talented athletes...
...years ago prolonged and deepened the world Depression of the 1930s; the post-World War II move toward free trade has been a mighty engine of global prosperity. Abandonment of that progress for the sake of temporary relief for some high-price U.S. industries would be the height of economic folly...
...height of World War I, air aces dogfight across European skies. In a startling revelation, the Red Baron's nemesis is shown to be a Major Larrabee (Rock Hudson), not Charles Schulz's Snoopy. No need to worry. Hudson's canine grin and acting prowess render him a close second to the vincible puppy. All that is missing is Linus, Lucy, Schroeder & Co. Standing in for them is a series of second-banana-peel comedians. Among them: a down-at-the-heils German agent, a couple of farceurs from the French intelligence, and a pip-pip righty...
...gain the advantages of height, the University of Hawaii, which built and will operate the observatory, had to endure some monumental difficulties. Construction of the $5,000,000 installation was repeatedly delayed by freezing temperatures. Vehicles often broke down on the rock-strewn road to the summit, and howling blizzards sometimes entirely blocked off lower levels of the route. One snowstorm, in fact, occurred only a few weeks before last week's formal dedication. But by far the worst problem was the thin air at the top of the volcano. Headaches, dizziness and nausea, all symptoms of oxygen deficiency...
...Flatiron, felt some kinship to public interest. After all, it was a tower in the great tradition, and its architect had decorated it a la greque. With the proliferation of towers, though, skyscrapers were no longer a symbol, except, for example, the Empire State Building, for its sheer height. They eventually could be constructed simply to provide...