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Reverse Adaptation. Most notable is Romeo and Juliet. Curiously enough, it has been directed by a young Italian, Franco Zeffirelli, who also designed the superb, dusty-streets-and-bright-sunlight Veronese sets. Over the years, productions of the play have steadily stiffened and solidified; the blood has gone out of the sword battles, and even the most passionate of declamations have gradually become dry word arias in a static opera without music. Zeffirelli has changed that. His direction is fresh and fluid despite the inherent difficulties in a play that begins in the stars then plods to an absurd conclusion...
...commanded six light sensors to find the direction of the sun. Then an attitude control system of gyros and small nitrogen gas jets went into action, turning Ranger III until it locked on the still-distant sun, its broad butterfly wings absorbing maximum power from the sunlight. Some three hours later, C.C. & S. started another series of actions that turned the Ranger's rotatable dish antenna toward the receding earth. Radio signals reported success loudly and clearly over the antenna's strong, narrow beam...
...exuberance and Levantine guile. They make a cult of the body, delight in being alive in a land of sea and sunlight. They respect courage and brute force, but have no tradition of political loyalty. Pieds-noirs run after demagogues, but soon lose interest and go back to eying the. girls and sipping anisette at sidewalk cafés. Grumbled a French officer, "Even if they started a revolution, they'd take time out for anisette...
...English branch was started in 1884 by William Hesketh Lever-later Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles-who left his father's wholesale grocery business to open a soap factory with his brother. With intensive advertising and merchandising that was ahead of his time, Lever made his Sunlight brand the world's leading soap and gathered together an industrial complex based mainly on products from fats and oils. Meanwhile, in an overlapping segment of the fat and oil industry, two Dutch margarine-making families -the Van den Berghs and Jurgens-battled each other in a Hatfield-McCoy feud...
...rainy season was over. Under clear skies and sharp sunlight, the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas last week prepared the major offensive that they hope will topple the unsteady regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem...