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...last week, clutching a color insert torn from the current issue of Asahi Science Magazine (circ. 90,000), subscribers streamed into Canon Camera Co. service stations in five Japanese cities. One side of the insert bore color pictures of Niagara Falls and London's Big Ben clock tower, the other a solid block of brown ink. As the subscribers listened spellbound, the insert, placed face up in a table-top device called a Synchroreader, reproduced the awesome thunder of Niagara Falls, the clangorous toll...
...blockbuster mystique, you know, it's got to be big and bangy," he detects "a tendency to look for the Great American Play all the time ... I think there's a danger that the more temperate drama might be washed out of sight in favor of a play like Niagara, that indunates you... I think the chief danger is the acceptance of excitement for excitement's sake...
...individualistic patrons who know their own minds: ex-President Harry Truman, who authorized a $60,000 mural for the Truman Library in Independence, and New York's Robert Moses, who wants a smaller ($21,000) piece for the New York State Power Authority administration building in Niagara Falls...
...selling mildewed blankets to the Union Army and smuggling Confederate cotton into the mills of his native Vermont. When peace came, he was rich enough to buy a directorship in the Erie Railroad-and so accelerated the decay of that calamitous line that Erie passengers felt safer "going over Niagara in a barrel." Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler, he could stand up to such Erie accomplices as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould. Indeed, in his watered-stocking feet, he stood only inches below the stature of Commodore Vanderbilt himself...
Honeymoon. In Niagara Falls, Ont., the city hall ran out of marriage licenses...