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...lack of documents. Because the Germans were compulsive record keepers, the entire history of the program-plant diagrams, patent descriptions, detailed reports on which catalysts and additives work best, even the monthly reports of Hitler's 25 oil-from-coal plants-fell into American hands at the end of the war. But crude oil was available then in ample supply at $2 per bbl., and the man-made oil cost up to five times as much. So the German documents were filed and forgotten. Wainerdi and Krammer found some of the papers in the National Archives in Washington...
...depicted in the exhibition painting; hence the bells, gong, pounding drums and full orchestra which close the work in thrilling fashion. The orchestra, although seeming now a bit too fast in parts, ended the work with a befiting clamor of vying instruments, sounding like a celebration and evoking the patent majesty of Ravel's orchestration...
Inside, the bar was done up Mafia-surreal: big horse-shoe-shaped counter, color t.v. competing with the jukebox in the corner, indoor-outdoor carpet on the floor. A beer cost $2.25. Men in lime-green leisure suits and white patent leather loafers whose porcine faces bulged behind drugstore sunglasses, nodded at us and cackled in a far booth. We took our beers to the cool, shaded back...
Some will take the narrator's wry self-reading at face value and ignore him for writers who practice legerdemain less self-consciously. Yet Calvino's specialability is to perform magic by ex posing it. At first, the patent artifice of The Castle of Crossed Destinies demands disbelief. By the end, an odd conviction displaces skepticism: maybe life really is all in the cards...
...Astors had received other bids for the Observer-from Fleet Street, four Arab countries and even a Hong Kong patent-medicine heiress. Until last week the leading suitor was Publisher Rupert Murdoch, the Australian whose three-continent newspaper empire includes London's Sun and News of the World and who two weeks ago agreed to buy the New York Post. But the Astors were troubled that many of Murdoch's 87 newspapers are distinguished chiefly by their attention to sex and scandal, and Murdoch would not guarantee editorial independence to Observer editors...