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...bombing of Pearl Harbor was reproduced at a Navy base in Port Hueneme, Calif, and the Navy allowed only four days for filming. Rented Navy destroyers were wired with simulated explosives, set to go off in a chain reaction. By mistake a jittery technician fired them before the cameras were ready to role. It took 35 people to rig them up again. A similar delay occurred during filming at Aaron Jastrow's Tuscan villa, which had been chosen because of its faded golden hues, the result of years of weathering. The owner of the villa was so proud...
...early 1960s, focusing on the dehumanizing aspects of academic expansion into new areas of government-sponsored research, the broadening of technical and pre-professional graduate programs at the expense of liberal arts, and the willingness to subordinate these new "multiversities" to a higher national purpose. SDS's 1962 "Port Huron Statement" argued that prestigious schools had become entangled in an elite bureaucratic network that was engineering a Cold War abroad and serving corporate might, rather than popular will, at home...
...than entertaining; its verve and humor disguise a serious work. Sagan's cruise has a musical motif; the deluxe passengers have each paid $15,000 to listen to a virtuoso pianist and a celebrated diva perform aboard a ship pointedly christened Narcissus. The lure is also gastronomical: "The port of call determined the musical work, and the musical work determined the menu. These delicate musical relationships, hesitant at first, had bit by bit been transformed into invariable ritual, even if it occasionally happened that the sudden decay of a tournedos necessitated the replacement of Rossini by Mahler...
Whatever her motives, the Prime Minister's triumphal voyage was nonetheless a highly successful distraction. Just before her plane landed in the Falklands, the local radio station was alerted of the impending visit and broke the news to the islanders. The 900 residents of Port Stanley, now far outnumbered by the 4,000 British troops on the islands, raced outdoors into the blustery summer afternoon. Tousled by the wind, Thatcher said of her presence: "It is more than a visit. It is a profoundly moving experience." Throughout the tour, the Prime Minister repeated her pledge to safeguard the freedom...