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...Shane and Sudden Fear, has since become the hottest heavy in Hollywood. His face alone, as thin and cruel as a rust-pitted spade, is enough to-frighten a strong man; and to make matters worse, he seems to emit hostile energy, like something left overnight in a plutonium pile...
...certainty that total military protection is unattainable. Indeed, the attempt to achieve it ... would demand a state of ... regimentation. There is also the ever-present struggle ... of service partisans for a larger proportion of the defense dollar ... These attitudes, among others, find expression in the current effort to pile dollars upon unexpended dollars in Air Force appropriations. Actually, the major portion of the Air Force reduction is simply application of rationality to requests for new appropriations so that previous over-funding of Air Force requirements can be eliminated . . . The new Joint Chiefs of Staff are soon to examine our entire...
Gone! All gone! New Englanders, it is true, will get a taste of traditional glare and excitement when Independence Day rolls around this week-the "Horribles," grotesquely costumed children, will parade along a few village streets, and some towns will light big bonfires at midnight on the Third (a pile of barrels a hundred feet high awaits the torch on Salem's Gallows Hill). But the U.S. as a whole will have a much more sterile diet-packaged fireworks shows in city parks and packaged patriotic sentiments on television...
...formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most of the city's three-decker tenements, but struck full on a housing project area in suburban Great Brook Valley. There, the brick walls of apartments stood...
...Corbusier plans the governor's palace as a towering pile of concrete blocks. The base is a block 130 feet square, for official receptions; atop it is a smaller, two-story block for executive offices. Placed above both is the governor's residence, with a roof garden above it, sheltered by an enormous crescent of concrete. A short distance away, with the Himalayas as a background, Chandigarh will have its crowning edifice: a simple, saucer-shaped amphitheater with a huge, free-swinging mobile at one end cast in the shape of an open hand, a traditional Indian symbol...