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FRIDAY: Naturalists. First part of a series of essays on famous American naturalists examines the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau. Filmed around Walden Pond in Concord. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color...
...washes the plain concrete surface of the cycloids, gently blending warmer reflections from a white oak floor. Curve answers to curve, vault to channel. There is no glare on the pictures. Yet as the sun moves, the light, and by implication the space, changes subtly, like reflections in a pond...
Feeding Time. For the crocodile scene, for instance, Saltzman and Broccoli carved out a pond on a crocodile and alligator farm in Jamaica. Since crocs are sluggish once they are fed, 86 of the monsters, specially selected for size and meanness, were starved for three months, just so they could stay awake and snap their jaws with appropriate conviction. How does Bond, who has been placed by Mr. Big on a little island in the middle, escape? He throws them some chicken heads, which were supposed to attract the killers to himself, and while the crocodiles are dining, walks across...
...looked like snow that winter day, and John Bintz was swept up with inspiration. An apple grower near Saginaw, Mich., Bintz had been searching for ways to use all the dirt left over from bulldozing a pond next to his orchards. Why not build a mountain? So with an earth leveler, he pushed the soil into a 60-ft. mound and named it the Apple Mountain Ski Resort. That was a dozen years ago. Today Apple Mountain has grown to 200 ft., and it bristles with eight ski lifts, an eight-nozzle snowmaking machine, an equipment shop, a ski school...
...members of the committee left the Fresh Pond Shopping Center for a high-spirited march to BBN's headquarters at 50 Moulton St., about a half-mile away. At 4:33 p.m. they, arrived at the company's offices, chanting, "Research, research, that's your game; war criminals is your name," BBN employees could be seen peering out the windows, frequently amiling...