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...Teddy bear warriors alone required 40 of the "little people." Costumes were fitted, and several of the female Ewoks even cuddled baby Ewoks, cunningly designed hand puppets. Kenny Baker, the man who has propelled Artoo-Detoo through his more complicated maneuvers?at times Artoo-Detoo was a real machine???doubled as an Ewok and recruited his wife into the Ewok tribe as well. "Since most of the Ewoks live in trees, we had to find a good number of dwarfs and midgets who could do stunts," says Freeborn. "One even had a black belt in karate...
...essential, his failure to re-establish his independence of Lyndon Johnson, his lack of an efficient campaign organization, his troubles with the dissident Democratic left. Though not really prepared to mount a major campaign swing?Larry O'Brien had barely taken over as manager of a badly disorganized Democratic machine???Humphrey was dispatched willy-nilly to Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware and New Jersey. Tired when he started, he made as many as nine speeches a day. Advance arrangements were sketchy, crowds at some major stops thin or indifferent. In Philadelphia, the sparse crowd gave a bigger hand...
...miserably for his veins to close, he fell prey to an alarming thought: if his condition became chronic, he might never be able to become a flyer. One night a little later he dreamed of coursing the skies in the softly lit, walnut-paneled cabin of an enormous flying machine???a cabin he recognized with a start 30 years later when he went aboard one of his own four-engine Sikorsky Clippers to inspect a job of interior decoration done by Pan American Airways...
This astounding mechanism?the Fiske Reading Machine???consists of a small spring-tongs on which are mounted a lens for one eye, a shield for the other and a rack to hold reading matter?really a very simple contrivance, something like a, stereoscope, except that you use one eye instead of two, and the lens is a more powerful magnifier. But the important part of this invention is not the mechanism but the use. For it will, asserted the Admiral, "render printing presses and typesetting machinery obsolete," "revolutionize the publishing industry," "make glasses unnecessary." By its help books will...
...promise are already cursed with ease?seeming tied to the same narrow slice of life where every one is more or less of a gentleman. True, the soil is coming into its own somewhat?and the men of the soil?but not the machine and the men of the machine??? nor the vast class who make amusement in one way or another for the multitude, excepting for authors, painters, sculptors and musicians (who have even broken into the movies). The others remain outside, a monstrous and interesting regiment...