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...matter of fact I have a suspicion that people who have not read the book may not notice the absence of the lyrical streak and hence not object to the movie version on this ground. But there are a number of technical weaknesses that can be attacked in something nearer to absolute terms...
...will take a 1,000-mile step across the Mediterranean from North Africa to bring its air bases nearer Russia. By arrangement with the British, the U.S. Air Force will take over the old R.A.F. airstrip at Tymbou, in the colony of Cyprus, a few miles southeast of Nicosia, the island's capital. A 3,000-man labor force will be recruited to rebuild the base for use by U.S. bombers, which will be only 600 miles from Russia's Black Seaports, less than 1,000 miles from Baku oil, Donbas coal and Dnepropetrovsk power...
...Europe, lodging, lifts, transportation and equipment are much cheaper. At Switzerland's Davos, ski lifts fan out into ten square miles of wide-open slopes. The Parsenn-Bahn offers a choice of skiing down to Jenaz, 18 miles away, or to the nearer villages of Saas, Serneus, Klosters or Wolfgang, each serviced by a whistle-stop railroad that hauls the skier right back to Davos. At Zermatt, in the shadow of the Matterhorn, a good skier can zip down to Italy for a spaghetti lunch and be back in Switzerland for dinner...
...wearing a laurel wreath as a toupee. He is in any case beyond wearing laurel wreaths for show; he knows too well that the only true conqueror is the conqueror worm. Caesar is that type that always fascinated Shaw, the successful man of action. And Shaw molded Caesar nearer to his mind's desire: made him notable not for warmth but for lack of heat, not for humanity but for hate of inhumanity...
Overnight parking near the University came one step nearer realization yesterday at the Cambridge City Council meeting. The Council received the long-awaited Traffic Board survey to determine how many cars can be parked around city parks, playgrounds, and totlots, and found that over 500 automobiles can be accommodated in areas around the University and Radcliffe property...