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Tail-Wind Fliers. With a Polaroid-backed camera set up in front of a 50-mile-range radar scanner, the scientists shot a succession of twelve-minute time exposures. As a result, the bird echoes-which normally appear as indistinct dots on the radar screen-formed easily discernible lines on the film that enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations. Meteorologists and biologists were then able to predict the location of the flock for the following few hours and warn pilots of its presence. "The predictions are based on weather and migration patterns," explains Engineer...
Scientists had ordered the picture shot to show the earth's terminator line -the boundary between the daylight and nighttime hemispheres-which they had predicted would be fuzzy and indistinct because of the earth's atmosphere. Inspection of the first rough print of Orbiter's picture showed a terminator about as sharp as that on the moon -which has no atmosphere...
...insignia of Denmark's large coat of arms. Its lions passant (walking, three paws on the ground, the right forepaw raised, the head looking forward, the tail curved over the back) and hearts are derived from the family design of the Valdemars and can be traced to the indistinct seal of King Knud IV dating back...
Robert Lanchester attains no minor milestone. In Little Me Sid Caesar created a six distinct comic roles. Lanchester goes one step further--he creates six indistinct ones. On several occasions, though, he is very funny to watch as he combines verbal and visual dexterity. He makes the Shakespearian buffoon, Tedious, into a physically contorted Elizabethan-pretzel...
...Funnyman Sellers flitting into a jewelry store disguised as Monsieur Jules, the famous French couturier. As the jeweler dials the combination of his safe, Monsieur makes movies of the process with a hidden camera, and all the while permits a hilariously snaky little smile to slither through his indistinct mustache. A few days later Sellers holds a private screening for some of the boys. "That's all for todye," he says briskly as the show concludes. "Nex' week we'll 'ave a prowgram uv eddikytional an' trynin' films, startin' wiv Rififi...