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Teresa (MGM) is a strange picture, by the usual Hollywood standards. Its hero is an insecure weakling with whom no red-blooded American moviegoer will care to identify himself. Its heavy is that rarely assailed folk heroine, Mom. Its backgrounds (a bombed-out Italian village, a humid Manhattan slum) are as real and painful as a clout on the jaw. Least conventional of all, and the best thing about Teresa, is its heroine, who gives U.S. movies a new kind of personality and performance...
...follows one woman, Tabitha Baskett, whose life and strange love weaves through the Victorian Era, the Kaiser War, the depression, and still another war. Her life is a story of changing manners and morals. It starts as a life of revolt, against the humid prudery of a rural town, against the respectability of Victorian London; it ends in resistance to the new fangled ideas of younger revolutionists...
...York's La Guardia Field, there was a smear of haze across the half moon; the summer night air was warm and humid. Most of the 55 passengers who crowded into the belly of the big, silent, high-tailed DC-4 were vacation-bound. At Northwest Airlines' special night-aircoach rates they could fly to Minneapolis for $47, or to Seattle, the end of the line, for $111-and only over night. Youngsters, husbands and wives, stenographers and a Roman Catholic priest (who had boarded the plane at the last minute) fastened their seat belts as the four...
Lonely Bahrein Island, off the east coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, is a hot, humid desert, inhabited mostly by Arabian pearl divers and British and American oil drillers. Its airport on nearby Muharrak Island is a stopover for Air France planes on the Saigon-Paris run, and French pilots don't particularly like it: the weather in the Gulf is treacherous, and within minutes fine flying weather can become a horror of sandstorms, torrential rains or typhoons...
Another danger of the current rainmaking boom in the Southwest is that the silver iodide particles, invisible and almost undetectable, may drift to the humid eastern part of the country (which often has too much rain) and cause damaging floods. Langmuir cannot prove that this has happened; the new technology of "meteorological engineering" is still too young to draw such definite conclusions...