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Overseers said they did not just provide a rubber stamp to the search committee's decision. In the end, they said, accepting the choice is a matter of trust in the search committee's judgment...
...else in cinema ever imbued rubber and fur with the lifelike feel O'Brien achieved in "King Kong." The only other man who came close was Ray Harryhausen. But as Paul Jensen notes, "[Harryhausen] worked hard to make good, imaginative pictures, but he never worked with a person who could take him further than he might go alone, as Merian C. Cooper did for Willis O'Brien." Harryhausen was the aging animator's apprentice on his last great picture, "Mighty Joe Young," for which O'Brien won the Oscar. One of the lessons he learned was not to do things...
FUEL 22 gal. of 110 octane in a rubber-like bladder designed for aircraft...
...scenes reminiscent of apartheid-era confrontations between security forces and black township residents, police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades at a mob of protesting squatters in Alexandra township as local council officials moved in to remove them. The eviction order on 3,500 families living along the Jukskei River that runs through Alexandra came after squatter shacks were washed away by floodwaters and the river was found to be contaminated with cholera. The government is trying to curb a cholera outbreak that has already resulted in some 18,000 infections and more than 70 deaths...
...toughest jobs in the industry. The 94-man crew works and lives out of a mobile camp: 30 bright-orange mobile homes on steel skis, linked together in six trains. In a season they will cover 400 square miles. The men travel the North Slope in Sno-Cats with rubber tracks to minimize damage to the tundra. "We always used to be cautious, but now we are walking on eggshells," says Kurt Kinder, the Phillips Petroleum rep on the seismic team. But the tundra, like eggshells, is fragile, and once broken cannot be repaired...