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Fellini Roma. The Fellini imagination roams through the city of his own making. A disjointed collection of documentary fantasy that can be, much of the time, an invigorating little plume in Fellini's panache...
OUTFITTED in all that panoply of royal tradition, Queen Elizabeth's elite regiments have one natural enemy: the conservationist. On the head of every member of the Foot Guards, for example, rises half a Canadian bearskin; from the helmet of the Household Cavalryman sprouts a plume of yak hairs. Whenever the army's 88 military bands wheel into action, the soldiers who carry the big bass drums drape themselves in the skins of leopards and tigers...
...first power plant to go into operation in 1963 near Farmington, N. Mex., turned out to be a tremendous polluter. The gray plume from its smokestacks has been tracked by plane over 215 miles and was easily visible to the Gemini 12 astronauts from 170 miles in space. Now the whole complex has become the focus of the biggest environmental controversy since the discovery of Alaska's oil. Last week the Senate Interior Committee held hearings in each of the affected states to sort out the conflicting arguments...
Delacorte's latest project, a $350,000 fountain that draws water from the East River and shoots it 400 ft. high, has proved even more painful. After the fountain began propelling its plume to beautify the skyline, the city board of health complained that the river water was polluted and thus the fountain was contaminating the air. At considerable expense, that was fixed, but now Delacorte has learned that New York State wants the fountain moved because it sprays brackish water on a part of Welfare Island where a park and plantings are planned. But Delacorte...
...world of West Coast rock. Her former publisher, Atheneum, refused to publish Cold Iron, because the company felt the book's seamier sides would damage the author's standing with her regular readership. She then offered it to McCall, which brought it out under a nom de plume concocted from the name of her agent, Roberta Pryor...