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...face and hands to the sun and need no dietary supplement. They get ill on 100,000 units a day. But in the tropics, Loomis figures, the white man's unpigmented skin could make a deadly dose of D: up to 800,000 units, he calculates, in a six-hour exposure of his whole body to the equatorial...
...Dodd was burdened by the unsolicited advocacy of Louisiana's Russell Long, the only Senator who openly championed his cause. Huey's son whooped and wambled through the debate, arms waving and objections flying, as if bent on infuriating the rest of the Senate. In a rambling six-hour diatribe that approached filibuster proportions and reduced attendance on the floor from more than 70 to 13, Long invoked his father, Uncle Earl, Daniel Webster, Christ and John F. Kennedy, along with a number of others. He capped the week by exclaiming: "I understand the case for Tom Dodd...
Librettist Henry Butler stripped O'Neill's six-hour epic to focus exclusively on the psychological currents that seethe beneath the surface of each of the main characters. Boris Aronson's ghostly sets created decadence and onrushing doom. As drama, the opera unfolded with all the shivering tension of one long, gradually building shriek, thanks in part to the almost balletic direction of Director Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). But what made Mourning move was the inspired acting of two darkly beautiful sopranos-Marie Collier as the lusting mother, and Evelyn Lear as the revengeful daughter...
...Last year Caroline Nelson, current A.P.T.A. women's-doubles champion, moved from Scarsdale, where she played regularly at the Fox Meadow Tennis Club, to Bryn Mawr, Pa., where there is a dearth of courts and top-ranked players; nothing daunted, she now drives back to Scarsdale, a six-hour trip, once a week...
Bowes, who feels that baton waving is one of the best ways to release pent-up urges, began his six-hour recording session by conducting the orchestra in a spirited rendition of God Save the Queen. Then he turned the podium over to BBC Conductor Geoffrey Brand, who whipped the musicians into shape, stepping aside to allow Bowes the therapeutic benefit of conducting a few of the final takes. Total cost...