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Since the days of Darius and Cyrus, the kingdom had descended far. It was still large (a fifth as big as the U.S.) and its mountains and desert contrasts were still dramatically scenic. But of Mohamed Reza's 15 million subjects a few thousand lived in lavish luxury, and almost all the rest in ragged poverty. At least eleven million of them had venereal disease. Most of the adults were opium addicts. Four out of every five children born died in infancy. Three out of every four who survived never learned to read or write...
Instead of a scenic lake, Oregonians feared that they might have a scenic volcano on their hands. Said Professor Howel Williams, leading volcanologist : "Renewed activity is not out of the question." Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...
...illustrate his thesis, Junyer has exhibited eleven figure models, scenic projects, and a "dance composition in high relief"-an ingenious polychrome plaster plaque. These exhibits demonstrate ways of putting his idea into practice: 1) by molding and painting lifesize images of dancers into the props of ballet sets; 2) by setting up colored, abstract manikins as foils for dancers; 3) by shaping scenery surfaces so that they reflect all chance positions of lighting...
...penthouse pleases, Burlington plans to order a fleet of them for its scenic runs. Also in the Burlington postwar works: multiple level sleeping and lounge cars...
Bamboo Music Hall. Major Clark Robinson organized the show in Assam while constructing a crude movie theater known as the Bamboo Music Hall. Robinson, a former New York scenic designer (Radio City Music Hall, the Roxy Theater), got the help of Private Al Roth as stage man- ager, gathered talent as he could find it. Props were made from whatever came handy...