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...Hollywood knows that Restaurant LaRue is the fashionable place to dine. Every evening some 280 fortunate film colonists jam the pistachio-&cocoa-striped booths, patiently wait their turn in the ebony-&-red-leather bar, or crowd the overflow tables on the flower-boxed French terrace. Every evening hundreds of disappointed latecomers must take potluck elsewhere...
Every day for a month Muscovites young & old had jammed October Hall to the doors. They followed the play on giant dummy boards suspended over the flag-decked stage. Generals, admirals and diplomats had taken time off to attend. Overflow crowds heard move-by-move reports over loudspeakers. Reporters and newsreel cameramen packed the front rows. Broadcasters flashed round-by-round accounts to the fighting fronts. Moscow newspapers rushed out extras with the latest standings and scores...
Builder Frank Crowe's 19th dam is the world's second biggest concrete structure (biggest: Grand Coulee Dam). Shasta is the highest overflow-type dam in the world (602 ft.). It is also California's tallest structure. When Shasta's reservoir fills (probably in 1946), water pouring over the center spillway will fall three times as far as Niagara. For California, Shasta Dam will...
...crowd which jammed the sedate portals of Chicago's Art Institute one evening last week caused the Chicago Daily News to headline: HELP! POLICE! ART EXHIBITION CALLS OUT COPS ! The headline was strictly factual: firemen as well as police were summoned to handle the overflow throng. What 6,500 art-lovers had come to see was the first comprehensive U.S. exhibition of the work of a 31-years-dead Mexican who has been called the greatest popular artist North America has ever produced. Few in the U.S. have ever heard of José Guadalupe Posada, "printmaker to the Mexican...
...plugs, this has a numbered keyboard like an adding machine. The message goes to the mechanical brain, called a "marker," which hunts out an available trunk line, tests a path to the destination and electrically sets up all connections-all within one second. If all lines are busy, overflow calls are stacked up in a special circuit and put through in order of priority as soon as lines are free. The marker has a trouble indicator which, on bungled calls, reports where & what the trouble...