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...Boston Traveler's Columnist Neal O'Hara is not a seeker after journalistic dynamite; his daily feature, "Take It From Me," is an innocuous collection of jokes, quizzes, fragments of news and "Thoughts While Shaving," and it is published on the comic page. O'Hara said he had no intention of stirring up a hornet's nest when he reflected (while shaving) last month that both Harvard's newly elected President Nathan Marsh Pusey and Senator Joe McCarthy live in the town of Appleton, Wis. (seat of Lawrence College, which Pusey has served as president...
...religion: "Why, if God so loves us, does He give us such a hell of a time?" For the America he visited only once, Philosopher Joad reserved special acid: "What a genius Americans have for coming into war late, on the winning side." A lifelong fame-seeker, (most famous remark: "Thank God, I am famous!"), Joad talked students of the Oxford Union into resolving (in 1933) that they would under no circumstances fight for king and country, later soared to great popular heights as the life and soul of the BBC's quiz panel, "Brains Trust." In his later...
...stubborn seeker after realism Stevens relies heavily on a "reflective technique," i.e., an actor's reaction to a line or situation. At times he resorts to trickery to get the proper reaction. On Shane one old standby worked perfectly with Villain Jack Palance, who seemed unable to turn on the right expression of amused contempt in one scene. Actor Elisha Cook Jr. had an angry line: "You're a no-good, lying Yankee!" Palance's facial expression earned too much contempt and not enough amusement. Finally, Stevens took Cook aside for a whispered moment. When the camera...
...first three Aerobee rockets sent up with this apparatus were failures (which surprised no one in the tricky rocket business). The fourth trial succeeded. The sun-seeker found the sun and held the camera steady on it for long enough to get a 28-second exposure. The film, recovered undamaged from the rocket's wreckage, showed a sharp spectrogram of the sunlight taken at 50 miles altitude, above nearly all of the atmosphere. The bulk of the ultraviolet was at just the place on the sun's spectrum where the scientists thought it would...
...seeker itself will probably move into the guided-missile field. It can be made to measure the light that is emitted from lower levels of the atmosphere. By keeping headed toward this light, it can steer a high-flying missile on a steady horizontal course...