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Happy Ring. Mastroianni plays a middle-aged movie director planning a new picture but not quite sure what he wants to say. To get away from it all, he holes up at an expensive but sleazy thermal resort, where he relives his life in memory and in dreams full of Freudian images...
...Utah. His tomb was a cave blasted into the side of a lofty butte. In 18° weather, flamethrowers sent balls of heat rolling over the flagstones in front of his nearby house so that the apostles could stand there barefoot without freezing to the rock. The apostles wore thermal underwear and sweat pants under their robes. Killing time, Martha of Bethany sat in the lap of the Apostle Philip while he read Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Pledge and she read John Updike's Rabbit...
...University of California at Los Angeles, their drivers stoically paying the 50? automobile admission fee that U.C.L.A. charges to discourage overcrowding the 411-acre campus with cars. Out of the cars stream 9,500 night students, who head across the campus for courses that range from modern Armenian to thermal management of spacecraft. Along with the students come some 300,000 culture-minded visitors a year to such events as a film series on the supernatural, or a superb new production of Measure for Measure (TIME, Jan. 26). Thousands of extension students last week jammed registration offices to sign...
...combining the nationalistic appeal that Indian engineers would do most of the work with a reassuring promise that the U.S. Kuljian Corp. would stand by to assist. To the Indian government, it was an irresistible deal: because he designed the Bokaro steam plant, which became a model for all thermal plants in India, Harry Kuljian's name was already held in high regard in New Delhi...
...contestants at Wichita needed thermals-columns of warm air-to stay aloft and they knew just how to find them. Towed to 2,000 ft. by powered aircraft, the sailplaners looked first for a "salad bowl"-a cluster of rising sailplanes already airborne and circling slowly, as if stirred by some giant ladle. Failing that, the entrants looked for the big cotton bolls of cumulus clouds-the typical sign of updrafts-or for wheeling hawks, those skillful natural riders of the wind. Having hooked a thermal, the sail-planers got from it every last inch of altitude, then drifted...