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...uses the child as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy through which to josh, mimic and needle his wife and the world. In a performance of sustained pyrotechnics, Finney does petrifyingly funny parodies of a Viennese neurologist who first assessed Joe's brain damage and of a pipe-sucking Anglican clergyman who is quite unstrung to hear God described as "a manic-depressive rugby footballer." To Joe Egg's mother, Sheila (Zena Walker), the child has become another pet to coddle along with cats, birds and Bri himself, who has never quite grown...
...slippery that they have to winch their way downhill as well as up. The biggest challenge is laying the pipeline, which will cost Texaco and Gulf about $50 million. Machete-wielding workers are helicoptered into the jungle to clear the land for the disassembled bulldozers that follow. Then pipe is dropped in. Four 3,600-h.p. diesel pumping stations are being constructed to boost the oil up the mountain...
...Forum spokesman said yesterday that tickets for the guru's 8:30 p.m. appearance in Sanders Theatre tonight sold out last Friday. But arrangements have been made to pipe in his talk to Burr B and perhaps a second auxiliary hall...
...been earmarked for mines, refineries and smelters around the town of Thompson in northern Manitoba. The expense is worth it. When in full swing, Inco will be producing no less than 25% of the free world's nickel which will be drawn from three Thompson mines named Pipe, Birchtree and Soab. Interestingly, the Soab lode rests partly under a lake with the same name. Two geologists, sent out after World War II by the Canadian government to map and name western lakes, had trouble getting their seaplane airborne from that one. In angry retaliation they called the offending body...
Gardner's proposals call for an elimination of 77% of the hydrocarbons and 68% of the carbon monoxide released through an automobile's exhaust pipe. How close has U.S. industry come to producing a device that would satisfy the proposed 1970 standards? At least one control system, said Interior Secretary Stewart Udall last week, has shown that "technology already exists that can be adapted to the internal-combustion engine to meet the air-pollution standards proposed...