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...other building is a ruined temple, the plaster facade coming away at several points disclosing the brick construction. The doorway is wide, almost square, and is hung with double scarlet curtains. These are closed and set off the six bottles of milk ranged before them. There is also another newspaper. In a corner lies an untidy heap of rags, and other miscellaneous trash...
...Algeria and has substituted the S.A.O. as the effective authority. Salan's illegal transmitters repeatedly break into broadcasts of official Radio Algiers, particularly when De Gaulle speaks. S.A.O. orders for strikes, the hoarding of food, or the withdrawal of savings from banks are widely obeyed. Overnight, the S.A.O. can plaster Algiers with posters and proclamations. In the morning's mail, Europeans find mobilization orders, complete down to their actual army serial number, ordering service not in the army but in the S.A.O...
Hoxha's picture is plastered on just about every wall in the land. His profile adorns Albania's monetary unit, the lek, and at meetings of the Communist Central Committee (most of whom are related to each other and to the boss by blood or marriage) Hoxha speaks from a podium decorated with a plaster bust of himself. Like his country, Hoxha is full of surprises. Instead of being a rough, tough mountain chieftain, he is a former schoolteacher and was the pampered son of a well-to-do Moslem merchant. Though he has the mentality...
...Army and Air Force bases of New Mexico believe that the Tularosa Basin is ideal for a major spaceport. In its northern sector is a vast, bare alkali flat with 100 sq. mi. of almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin...
Sculptures Made Small. Many of the most successful pieces in the show are miniatures of ideas conceived on the grand scale. Lynn Chadwick's rings are small, precious-metal versions of bronze sculpture already in existence. Henri Laurens sculpted bird shapes in plaster, then cast them in gold and presented them to his family as pendants and brooches. Many of the cast-metal pieces were cast by French Goldsmith François Hugo from wax or plaster molds made by French artists...