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...need to distribute sound so that everybody can hear equally well and without delay. Sound weakens as it reaches the rear of a hall, so it must be made denser by reflection from hard flat surfaces. In Kresge, that job is done by hard-surfaced "clouds" hung from the ceiling...
...Khrushchev's distorted and reiterated cry that Britain, France and the U.S. had instigated World War II and sent the Nazis marching toward Russia. Britons remember too well when they stood alone against Hitler, and when Hitler felt safe to move against them because he had protected his rear by an infamous pact with Communist Russia...
...ovenful, like cookies, mostly for the grave trade. Whether out of superstition or sentiment, their wares were heaped in tombs, and so sometimes survived the centuries. Many of the figures are thought to be free little interpretations of lost great sculptures. They narrowly reflect, as in a rear-view mirror, the lucid, passionate, sun-swept world of the ancient Mediterranean...
...wheelbase (v. about 115 in. for Ford and Chevvy), and a bigger engine (120 h.p. v. 90 h.p. last year) that will still get as much as 30 miles a gallon. Tok make the Rambler distinctive, as well as stronger, American added a wrap-around roof girdle over the rear window...
...Guilty Flee. In Jonesboro, Ark., Mrs. R. J. Barnhoft was arrested for drunkenness when she drove into a service station dragging a driverless pickup truck by the rear bumper of her car, and whispered darkly to the attendant: "I wish you'd check that guy behind me; I think he's drunk...