Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of the U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, scooping up gobs of creamed beef and soggy lettuce in hopes of finding a classified document inadvertently mixed in the mess. Suddenly another American carrier reared on the horizon, and the Russian skipper bellowed an order. Snorting black diesel smoke and heeling heavily to port, his trawler set a course straight for the newcomer. The chase...
...professional forester, I live and work among millions of trees. These, according to Professor Went [Sept. 9], produce an "incredibly toxic" blue haze. I have lived in Pittsburgh before smoke control. I have known gasoline smog in Southern California, and pulp mill smog in the north. I have endured wood "smog" in mill towns and near forest fires. Somehow, in spite of the "blue haze," the mountain air seems pure, refreshing and invigorating. The action of trees producing oxygen from carbon dioxide and water should outweigh any "arboreal pollution." All pollution should...
...ready for Madame Butterfly's entrance. Meanwhile, the three wagons can be loaded with upcoming scenes and wait to glide into the center-stage slot at the push of a.button. For other effects, the backstage Merlins can conjure up storms and floods, encircle Brunnhilde in flame and smoke, or simply change night into day by unreeling one of two massive 110-ft. by 270-ft. cycloramas. For more subtle moods, there is a space-age lighting booth with 3,000 switches that can say love in a rainbow of shades...
...assault on a pyramid of mail, meanwhile giving orders over his intercom system and fielding rapid-fire phone calls: "Hello. Yes. No. Tomorrow. Fine. Goodbye." Then, dictating memos over his shoulder, he would go off on his rounds, turning up onstage to admonish a stagehand ("Don't smoke on our stage, please"), switching off the lights in sub-basement storage rooms, climbing into the uppermost rafters to check on a special staging effect...
Straight A's. Brooklyn-born John Roche is very much an intellectual. But he is also a political activist who does not subscribe to the view, common among intellectuals, that academe and the smoke-filled room are incompatible worlds. Until last year, Roche was national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, an energetic organization that straddles both communities, and he is still an A.D.A. vice chairman. He was a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1964 and has also served Johnson, most recently on a fact-finding mission to Saigon in June...