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...outside of a skyscraper is also fantastic to watch. Trapped in a mail sack which is resting dangerously on a painter's scaffold being pulled non-chalantly up the side of the building, Lloyd teeters back and forth, causing the audience to first gasp at the suspense and then roar at the near misses of a fatal plunge to the street below. One wonders how he ever survived the situations he mixed himself up in order to produce such amazing comedy...

Author: By Arthur G. Sachs, | Title: Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy | 7/30/1962 | See Source »

...military base in the desert west of the Nile, President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week watched four Egyptian-made rockets roar upward into the clouds. The most potent rocket, named El Kaher (Conqueror), has a range of 360 miles and could land, said Nasser, "just south of Beirut." The area just south of Beirut is better known as Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: After a Decade | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...Roar: muffler or exhaust system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: Auto Talk | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...races at breakneck peed over important and meaningful lines. The actors overact and over-scream consistently throughout most of the play; then there is an almost total lack of noise of excitement when the bomb falls. The bomb itself hits with a ping, instead of with a shattering roar. In short, the terrifying final scene that shows the horrible picture of Europe's "moths flying into the candle" comes off as low comedy...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Heartbreak House | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

...grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II who once worked as a mechanic in a Detroit auto plant. Going Dutch with their Queen, Amsterdam's city fathers contributed $28,000 to the royal revels, while 1,500,000 loyal Dutchmen enthusiastically lined the city's ancient canals to roar "Hiep, hiep, hoera!" and sing a patriotic song called Tulips of Amsterdam, Offered to You, Our Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Hiep, Hiep, Hoera! | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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