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...think here." An ingenious system of black window shades enables him to throw just the light he wants on each portion of his still-life in turn. The still-life actually exists, whole, in his studio. Albright built the moldy brick wall himself, and assembled all the vast assortment junk that makes up the rest of the picture. The major items are on wheels, so that they can be shifted about the studio. But Albright does no more shifting than neccessary; he lets things lie until richly coated with dust. He loves them chiefly for their melancholy aura of vanished...
Anchors Aweigh. Last fortnight, with the cargo safely ashore, Salvager Canipe and his crew pumped the remaining water out of the Babun, did some work on her machinery and prepared to refloat her. While the natives scoffed. Canipe got two enormous, aged anchors from a Norfolk junk yard, fastened cable lines to them and dropped them a quarter-mile out at sea. The other ends of the cable were fastened to the Babun's freshly oiled winches. One morning the Babun's twin diesel motors began to purr, her winches started to wind, and the big pull...
...Angeles, dozens of hot-rod clubs build their own sports cars out of junk-heap jalopies fitted with souped-up, modern engines. Some of the youngsters take surplus airplane-wing fuel tanks and turn them into 170 m.p.h. racers for speed trials on Utah's Bonneville salt flats; others build elaborate racing cars with Fiberglas bodies and 300-h.p. power plants (often with two engines hooked together) that can do up to 240 m.p.h...
...were winging out of Guatemala last week with fresh tales of the two-week revolution. The most surprising report, dutifully passed along from Mexico by the New York Times, was that the celebrated 2,000 tons of Communist arms, shipped in May from Poland to Guatemala, were worthless military junk. The shipment, so the story went, included a vast quantity of useless antitank mines, broken-down Czech machine guns and heavy, worn-out cannon...
...Ingeniously exploiting the vastness of Sanders' stage, Mr. Lithgow uses with distinction that space which has dwarfed less skillfully-designed scenery. Essentially, the set consists of three frames, descending in size from the right side of the stage. With this arrangement, even a scene aboard the prow of a junk--projecting into the middle frame--does not seem out of place...