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...need of the viewer; a photograph must be somehow associable with him. Because he lacks or rejects the use of human scale, Adams' photographs are most effective on three-and four-foot panels. Everything is larger than life; he chooses subjects before which a human being stands tiny and speechless...
...said. "For a year and a half I did not feel like living. Last November I started to live again. Now I like living." The miracle, of course, was that Actress Patricia Neal, 41, was alive at all, after the three massive strokes that left her paralyzed and speechless two years ago. She feels so much better that this summer she will star in a movie version of Broadway's The Subject Was Roses. In Manhattan to deliver a speech for the benefit of the New York Association for Brain-Injured Children, Pat told a press conference that...
...Upwards of a hundred lay prostrate on the ground--some speechless and some with the bitterest cries, but with their hands raised, imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was truly awful for never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell that night...
...Speechless Things. At the heart of the debate is a search for the proper limit on police power in a free society-a society that confronts its cops with fast cars, urban slums, organized crime, street violence, anonymous people, and a crime rate rising five times faster than the rate of population growth. To cope with such conditions, the police argue that they must have all reasonable authority to question any citizen. Investigation alone, they say, cannot solve many crimes, such as burglary, murder and mugging, in which the culprits leave no physical traces. "I defy anyone to find...
Nuts & Bolts. When he first hove into Washington, McNamara left congressional committees speechless with his matchless grasp of detail. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Daniel Flood: "I had the impression that if we would ask the secretary for the number of nuts and bolts in Warehouse No. 1, drawer 7, Fort Dix, he most probably could tell us." But Congressmen soon became resentful of overwhelmingly documented proposals that left little room for debate; nor was McNamara's popularity on Capitol Hill burnished by his abrasive style and transparent impatience with congressional dillydallying...