Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minutes before Khrushchev's turboprop landed at Schonefeld Airport, an announcer drilled the spectators in a proper greeting: "Now, when our friend steps out of his plane, we will all cheer in unison, hip, hip, hurrah." When Nikita stepped out of his plane, all smiles, the crowd was silent and only the honor guard of soldiers shouted, officially. In contrast to President Kennedy's welcome by more than a million West Berliners, a scant 250,000 East Berlin factory workers, secretaries and schoolchildren, marching in closed formations, turned out for Khrushchev. Along parts of the 16-mile route...
...fear. After a few encounters, Schaller and the animals were on the best of terms. He often crept close while they were bedding down for the night, and he slept less than 100 ft. away. He reports restfully that they never snore. But wide awake they are far from silent. Sometimes they purr like large contented cats, and for special occasions they make a great variety of noises: grunts, grumbles, barks, yips, whines, hoots and roars, and com plicated sounds that the adventurous zoologist describes...
Across no man's land comes the sound of Silent Night-"Stille nacht, heilige nacht. . ." The Germans toss over a boot containing a sprig of evergreen tied with red ribbon, a package of cigarettes, a piece of sausage. The Tommies toss back a Christmas pudding. Then, as the Tommies grab for their rifles, German soldiers appear at the back of the stage. They have a bottle of schnapps. The rifles go down. Everybody drinks. Up in the light bulbs it says: ONE HALF OF BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WIPED...
...noble, but under their shell of nobility there is a core of honest fear. He also uses Christian symbols in a way new to Soviet films; Western audiences can have but one interpretation for a brief scene showing a wrought-iron cross, the rising sun gleaming behind it, standing silent after a night of shellfire. And the end brings another arresting touch: a bare but unmistakable hint of heaven...
...offered to the first turbine car to average 150 k.p.h. (93.2 m.p.h.) for 24 hours. Its kerosene-fueled engine measured only 30 in. from air intake to exhaust, developed only 150 h.p. (45 h.p. less than a Chevy V-8), ran so quietly that it got a nickname: "The Silent Specter." It had only two gears, forward and reverse, and the "freewheeling" engine (turning between 30,000 and 70,000 r.p.m.) provided no slowing effect on corners, putting a fantastic strain on the brakes. Nevertheless, the car never even needed a change of tires; and Britain's Graham Hill...