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Night Tide ebbs when it tries to be too logical, for a legend tends to slacken under close scrutiny down at police headquarters. But solid professionalism is evident everywhere. The music underscores action with fine restraint, and Harrington's serviceable dialogue suits the guileless, understated performances of his principals, Linda Lawson and Dennis Hopper. They are deftly typecast. As the sailor, Hopper talks about Denver, but his Attic profile might have been minted in ancient Greece. And Actress Lawson lushly incarnates the myth of mariner and maid that has haunted men's imaginations for more than...
...Haloid from its name in 1961) will come out with a smaller, desktop 813 dry copier next fall (probable rent: $40 a month), is developing a machine to apply xerography to facsimile transmission of documents by radio waves. Though Wilson expects the demand for the 914 to begin to slacken after mid-1963. he counts on the company's 550 patents and 375 pending patents to keep competition at a respectful distance...
...Limits. Even before the French veto, U.S. investments in the Common Market had begun to slacken, largely because Europe's boom has sagged somewhat and investment opportunities are fewer. Now that Britain's rejection cuts down the size of the potential market, many U.S. firms that might have made the trip to Europe are sure to reconsider. The Europeans do not seem seriously bothered by this possibility. France has clearly shown that it wants to limit U.S. investment. The West Germans and even the usually accommodating Dutch have already started making it more difficult for U.S. businessmen...
...hands as they slacken and strain...
Karandas, turning on Kirkland Street, managed to get his third lock at his pursuer. And as he swung into Divinity Avenue, he contemplated an attack. Words of wrath formed themselves in his disordered brain, as his body's pace began suddenly to slacken. His unusual exertions were catching up with him--and so was Biff Bundie. On the steps of the Biology Building, Karandas finally ground to a halt; and there, magnificently, he turned slowly to face and address his tormentor. "I do not know who you are, sir," he wheezed in a high-pitched whine quite foreign...