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Last week the San Andreas Fault system shrugged again. A soundless, polite waver wiggled skyscrapers, floors and desks, then awesomely heaved harder, and adopted a unique up-and-down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the Mark, some 15 early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway...
Although the bass drum is too delicate for noise making, Novick hinted that the Band would not be soundless when it rolled into Ithaca. "Perhaps Cornell will appreciate an early morning serenade this Saturday," he remarked. Last year the Band gave Yale a similar free concert in the dark, but, received little gratitude from students or police...
...week, the barefooted contestants, dressed in pajama like costumes, clambered carefully into the canvas-covered ring. At a signal from the referee, the contestants knelt on their haunches, Japanese style, heads bowed low. Then they hopped to their feet and came out fighting. Much of the fighting was a soundless, antic pantomime with the contestants warily circling each other, clutching pajama tops, watching the opponent's feet like two children taking their first steps on the dance floor...
When he had finished, the reporter from the Communist Daily Worker asked him if his collective punishment policy was not the same as that used by the Nazis. Templer's lip curled into a smile like a soundless snarl. Grimly he recited the prosaic, ghastly facts & figures he had had to deal with. "I notice you do not deny using the Fascist system," said the Daily Worker reporter. "Didn't bother to," said Templer. The Communist reporter asked: "What is the level of anemic malnutrition in Malaya?" Answered Ternpier: "I haven't the vaguest idea." The reporter...
...erased and rerecorded in case of mistakes. Armour said that Eastman Kodak Co., Revere Camera Co., Ampro Corp., and Bell & Howell Co all plan to have the new films and adapters ready by next spring. The price of film is estimated at about 50? more than fo soundless rolls. Price of the sound adapter: about...