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Bradley, a 33-year-old former fullback for the Cleveland Browns, offers his audience as few comforts as possible. The Studio serves only hot wine and popcorn, and the customers are crowded unmercifully into a room scarcely larger than a pool table. The boss pays his performers only food and carfare, and the constantly changing program denies them even the salve of star billing. To pure folk singers, though, the problems are minor, and the Studio has become a shrine that wins the affectionate services of such stars as Odetta, Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger when they pass through town...
Fragile Balance. U.S. policymakers bounced like popcorn on a hot stove. Many viewed De Gaulle's arbitrary action, undertaken without consulting his NATO allies, as simply a cheap way for France to demonstrate its independence in foreign affairs. Washington maintains that the French move is both mischievous and unwise because 1) it will not soften Red China's militancy or even necessarily help trade (the Dutch have formal trade relations with China, but sell less there than do the Belgians, who have none); 2) it upsets the "very fragile balance" in the Far East and can have incalculable...
Before it ended, an explosion thundered through the auditorium. A 30-ft. wall of flame shot over a section of box seats and rinkside folding chairs. In an instant, the rink was littered with enormous chunks of concrete, shredded programs, crumpled popcorn boxes, splintered seats, twisted steel-and dozens of limp or painfully writhing bodies that lay in puddles of blood spreading over the ice. It took a moment for the horror to register. Then the gay chorus line broke in a scramble of skate blades and screams. A woman in the audience shrieked to her companion...
...knows what the moon is made of, and no one can be sure what its surface is like after a 4-billion-year bombardment by sunlight, X rays, solar particles, cosmic rays and meteorites. The moon may be dust or solid rock, or something in between, like popcorn. It may be smooth or jagged all over. It may be radioactive or covered with highly reactive chemicals. It may have properties that do not exist on earth and that earthlings cannot imagine. A two-man spacecraft to land on this unknown surface is being built by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp...
...tradition are asked to crowd in close and watch single acts performed in a small single ring. Whole tiers of the high seats at Madison Square Garden are deliberately left unsold. There is no parade. There are no spangled multitudes. There are no barkers, and even the soda-peanut-popcorn hawkers are forbidden to hustle during the acts. Intimacy is the effect the Russians want...