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Half an hour after midnight the city was rocked by a thunderous dynamite blast that shattered a wing of the seven-year-old, $500,000 Hattie Cotton Elementary School where one five-year-old Negro girl had registered the day before. The blast ripped doors off hinges, cracked plaster and scattered bricks and glass in thick, ugly layers across the surrounding schoolyard and walks. "A hellish explosion-just like God had whispered in my ear," said one nearby resident...
...than in the rest of the country. In Pasadena, Architects Whitney Smith & Wayne Williams have designed homes with features as Japanese as a house on the Nagara. "We're not trying to hide anything," says Architect Williams. "We don't have an exposed beam suddenly stopped by plaster. The eye can follow the line right to its logical conclusion. There's so much chaos and confusion in the outside world today that a person has a right to peace in his own home." Adds Partner Smith: "But we don't call these houses Japanese. They...
...artist might rush to his easel to sketch the characters he had encountered in a day, Chaney would go home to his makeup kit and superimpose upon his own flesh the faces he had studied in police courts, water front dives and cafés. With putty and plaster, collodion-created scars, false teeth, wigs, facial clamps, cotton stuffing and rubber dilaters, Actor Chaney would be somebody else - an art he found most expedient in the days when the studios made their daily castings at first glance and strictly according to script-dictated types...
...technology-armed U.S. farmers matched the biggest total harvest they had ever known. On land diverted from corn and wheat under acreage allotments, farmers bring in crops - barley, soybeans, sorghums - that compete with corn and wheat as livestock feeds. Result: bigger corn and wheat surpluses. "As soon as they plaster a patch on one place," says an Illinois farm-organization official, "something squirts out in another...
...young Louis, unlike his grandfather, was clumsy, timid and stolid. A slight physical deformity made him incapable of sexual intercourse; his only real vice was gluttony, his favorite daytime amusement mixing plaster with the palace workmen. When his gay, pretty bride stepped from her coach and gave him an airy kiss, the 15-year-old "booby" only shifted gawkily from foot to foot; after the nuptials, two days later, he seemed mainly interested in the huge wedding feast. "Don't overload your stomach tonight," warned the old King. "Why not?" replied the Dauphin. "I always sleep better after...