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Inspired by Mark Twain's 1865 tale The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the old California Mother Lode town of Angels Camp has for the past 43 years sponsored an annual frog-jumping contest. The occasion, reeking of rustic America, always draws entries from across the nation, including those of Governors, Senators, Congressmen and their toadies...
...elsewhere. Court set in motion a series of enormous deals that have already resulted in the investment of more than $1 billion in the Pilbara. The $336 million Mount Newman Mining Co. (30% of which is owned by American Metal Climax) is systematically leveling Mount Whaleback, an immense lode that rises 750 ft., stretches three miles and is said to be rich in ore for at least 1,000 ft. below the earth's surface. In the next 15 years, it will deliver 300 million tons of iron ore to steelmakers, mainly in Japan...
...when Michael Caine's hordes first stumble onto the same agricultural treasure-lode, there is no indication that the film will seriously falter. Sharif persuades Caine that wintering in the valley village might prove more beneficial to the soldiers than sacking it. Caine promptly murders two dissenters. The remaining twenty are none too perturbed; after all, Caine's unnamed Captain is a rather tough, cool cookie, and as one soldier remarks, strongman Korsky "was a turd...
Burning Bars. The equipment companies have struck a particularly rich lode in protecting banks against burglars. "In the postwar era," says Philip Zenner, Mosler Safe Company's marketing vice president, "this country has developed by far the best-educated class of criminals we have ever had." Thus the companies are turning out ever more exotic defensive gadgets. For example, to cut alarms without the breaks being noticed, crafty cracksmen now tie in simulators that duplicate the all-safe signal. In a counterattack, both Diebold and Mosler have developed alarm attachments that transmit random signals similar to computer code, which...
...influenced by Bonhoeffer in his Secular City, he presented a view of "religionless religion" which both encapsulated the disparate commentaries of theologians and sociologists, at the same time that it infuriated many in the same scenes. This time he mines several veins and comes up with another theological mother lode. The Divinity School on Francis Ave. will again pack them in to pay homage to the guru's feet...