Word: seams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thumb (George Pal; MGM) is one of the nicest Christmas presents Hollywood ever gave the pigtail-and-popgun set. Producer George Pal has managed to mingle puppets, live actors and animated cartoons with such skill that not once can the spectator see the embarrassing seam where two sorts of cinema meet. As a piece of entertainment, the film is unusually fresh and appealing; it is kid stuff, but it will probably sell a lot of popcorn to the grownups...
...fast-growing, already seam-split junior college on the outskirts of Los Angeles is likely to be the battleground for California's hottest educational fight during the next few months. The issue at Compton College: President Paul Martin's use-or misuse, depending on which violently opposed viewpoint is taken-of educational television. Within the college, teachers mutter moodily of "1984"-or support Martin enthusiastically. Outside, bitter opposition is building; a few days ago the 90,000-member California Teachers Association condemned Compton's plan, asked the University of California to consider refusing to recognize credits earned...
When the Swiss scientist was awakened, it was 2 a.m. in the dreary Tuscan hamlet of Baccinello (pop. 400). But Paleontologist Johannes Hurzeler leaped from bed in a blink. In a coal seam 600 ft. under the village, a miner's torch had lighted an ancient white bone. Down in the depths Hurzeler dug farther with trembling care. Last week he ended a nine-year treasure hunt, exhumed the first complete fossil skeleton of an Oreopithecus ("mountain ape"). The age of the coal: 10 million years...
...Septuagenarian Stella Dysart, an oil wildcatter, who knew every corner of the 72-sq.-mi. area from her 30 unsuccessful years of oil hunting. Using Stella's drilling logs of rock formations and a rickety, secondhand rig, Lou Lothmann cut down 360 ft. into a 17-ft.-thick seam of uranium on Dysart land. That started the rush. In the past two years, the region around Ambrosia Lake and the neighboring town of Grants has been found to contain more than 65% of all estimated U.S. uranium reserves. Now the area is being built into the nation...
...accentuated line of the seam on the tennis ball could mean that Mr. Chaliapin had the Yang and Yin symbol in mind...