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...Truffle Hound. The hunting ground of the celluloid sleuths is vast-Government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, old newsreel vaults and a network of private collectors, mostly eccentrics whom one NBC searcher describes as "a basketful of live eels who frequently don't own the film legally." Archives are widely scattered, often poorly indexed, studded with tantalizing gaps left by oversight, fire and disintegration. Nitrate-base film, widely used until 1948, has a lifetime of only 25 years. "It is not unusual," says an expert, "to open a can of film and find nothing but dust." Almost...
...sleuthing job breeds special techniques. The older film gets, the worse its stench. Says Daniel Jones, chief film scout for NBC's Project 20: "I go into an old film vault like a truffle hound. I go to the cans that smell worst first." Then he dumps water on them against the common risk that the old film may burst spontaneously into flames...
...result of these policies, the NAACP has come under a rather intense legal fire in many of the southern states, which appear determined to hound and harass that organization out of existence. The NAACP has been a prime mover in bringing school segregation cases into the federal courts to get specific desegregation orders, and because of this legal activity against school districts which refuse to comply with the Supreme Court ruling, the association has been branded as subversive and dangerous...
...methodical Germans gave Laika a properly Wagnerian title-die Himmels-hündin, the She-Hound of Heaven-and drew a moral from her flight. "For a few days, the world is again united," intoned the Stuttgarter Zeitung. "For a few days, black and white, democrats and communists, republicans and royalists in all countries, islands and continents have one feeling, one language, one direction . . . our feeling of compassion for this little living being twirling helplessly over our heads." The Stuttgarter Zeitung had apparently overlooked some dissonant voices, such as that of the Vietnamese farmer who complained...
Everywhere, dogs talked, at least in print. The Los Angeles Times went after mutt-in-the-street reaction, quoted one usually reliable hound: "We have plans for a satellite which will have an astrodome, lounge seats and dual headlights. Unfortunately it will not be ready before 1976." Humans also had some biting remarks. A Chicago Daily News paragrapher advised Under Secretary of State Christian Herter: "Maybe you should reserve a large share for the U.S. when you're dishing out the aid to backward countries...