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Guinn's scientists simply irradiated samples of the various paints and projected the resulting radiation patterns on an oscilloscope screen. Components of the two blue and the two brown paint samples were so alike that no one could dispute their common origin. At Woodward's trial last month, a General Atomic scientist testified that it was "99.98% certain" that the tire iron came from Woodward's car, "99.999% certain" that it was used to jimmy the door. A jury quickly found Defendant Woodward guilty as charged. Before the advent of N.A.A. he would almost surely have gone...
Humphrey and his partner got applause for their performance of the "Humphrey special" to Alexander's Ragtime Band. Luci and her friends gyrated through the twist and the frug; then the President himself came on with a stomp of uncertain origin that might have been a presidential version of a step teen-agers have dubbed the "bird." To the racy tune of the old Edith Piaf favorite Milord, Lyndon took Luci in a modified bear hug and whirled her around while flapping time to the music with his elbows...
Next to drunkenness, the national vice, Norway's biggest problem is that it has too many languages. Riksmal, of Danish origin, is spoken by educated townsfolk; nationalists have promoted an invented "Norwegian" tongue called Landsmal, based on rural speech. Both Riksmal and Landsmal are now official languages and taught in school. "If a man knows eight languages," they say, "seven of them are Norwegian...
...bishop in Sweden's state church, Swedenborg was a kind of Nordic Da Vinci. He invented a machine gun and a fire extinguisher, first explained to the world the phenomenon of phosphorescence and the function of the ductless glands, devised a nebular hypothesis to account for the origin of the universe. Metallurgist, physiologist and mathematician, he knew nine languages, and promoted fiscal reforms and liquor regulations as a member of Sweden's Diet...
...film's effectiveness fades be cause of an unconvincing plot, more agonized than acted by Susan Strasberg, who appears in a cold-blooded analogue of the Anne Frank role in which she first won fame on Broadway. Cast as a French adolescent, she conceals her Jewish origin, volunteers as a playmate for the SS in order to get food, steals the socks off a dead comrade who once saved her life, and finally becomes a dread Kapo-"head" or trusty-who assumes guard duties, wielding a rubber truncheon against fellow inmates. This unsympathetic behavior nearly amounts to a forceful...