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Seven Wonders of the World (Stanley Warner Corp.), no matter how fine the publicity men sand it, is a travelogue. But the travelogue, as Cinerama presents it, has been firmly erected in recent years as a pillar of the movie community. Since Sept. 30. 1952, two Cinerama productions have grossed about $50 million, even though they have been shown in only 22 theaters. For the third Cinerama release, the producers have not bothered to refine their process much. The moviegoer is really watching three movies at once, and when, as still frequently happens, one half of a cathedral...
...corner of the National Affairs bullpen is the most prized copy boy station in our editorial department. It is furnished with a comfortable chair, phone, water cooler, a typewriter and plenty of copy paper. And it is partly closed off by a massive pillar. In the privacy of this corner, a succession of young men have daydreamed, read, studied college textbooks or pecked hopefully at the typewriter between errands for the editor, the writers and the researchers in the N.A. section...
...rose garden of the White House, Gronchi presented to Eisenhower a bronze reproduction of The Discus Thrower and a grey granite pillar surmounted by a white marble capital. In thanks, Eisenhower said: "As you know, we have millions of citizens of Italian derivation...
...Empire. Widmerpool, however, is in the midst of the Acceptance World without understanding it. At the Old School's annual Old Boys' dinner, Widmerpool, as the man of the '30s, horrifies all by making a long, uninvited speech on economics. The old housemaster, a neurotic, twisted pillar of the Old Order, salutes the onset of economics by suffering a stroke, and the Old Boys disband to their dim and several destinies...
...press backer in two elections: "Laicism is one of the principal cornerstones of modern Turkey. To make concessions on this subject for political reasons is an action not befitting a head of government." Istanbul's Cumhuriyet, another past supporter of Menderes, denounced any plan to "touch the foundation pillar of the Ataturk era." The opposition Republicans and the new Freedom Party blasted Menderes' pronouncement as "unconstitutional" and conceived in failure. Though only last month the government had shut up two newspapers for saying less. Menderes made no reply to last week's attack. In the villages...