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...light hand might have rescued what is young and touching in such scenes from what is infantile and mawkish, but Producer Selznick (Gone With the Wind) likes to keep production under his thumb. He bears down to good effect in the battle sequences among the umber Dolomites, and he shrewdly distracts his audience, during the dullest stretch of the story, with a ravishing cinemalbum of the blue Italian lakes. Jennifer Jones's heroine appears to be more neurotic than the plot requires, and the final stages of her pregnancy, as the camera just keeps staring at her heavily padded...
...scales it up 50 times (perfectly feasible, he says) and comes out with a rocket that weighs 43,000,800 Ibs. and has 87,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, twice as much as is needed to lift it off the ground. According to a generally accepted rule of thumb, the payload that reaches escape velocity will be one one-thousandth of the starting weight: about 21 tons. This will be enough weight allowance, says Ritchey, to send a crew around the moon in reasonable comfort and safety. When better solid propellants come along (just a matter of time), Ritchey...
...right or wrong, better or worse, Charlie Wilson was the man most responsible for the situation McElroy found in the U.S. military establishment. Wilson's five-year tenure covered half the life span of the Defense Department, and his heavy thumb left the biggest print. When Wilson came to Washington the Korean war was about over, and his first big job was to convert to the long-haul New Look. He cut manpower, substituted the firepower of increasingly plentiful nuclear weapons, and it is Charlie Wilson's monument that he maintained an effective force-in-being that kept...
South Korea. At 82, Syngman Rhee still holds the country under his thumb. Last year the country picked its Vice President from the opposition, suggesting progress toward a two-party system. But after two attempts on his life, Vice President John M. Chang has stayed at home under heavy personal guard, consulting with his party's members behind barricaded walls. Though the North Korean Communists have kept building up their military strength, the South has been making something of an economic comeback with the help of about $300 million yearly in U.S. aid, but there is danger that...
...John Seabury Hathaway, director of the university's department of public health, and Dr. John Woodruff Ewell, assistant director: "The normal, healthy individual can readily precipitate kidney stone formation by the simple ingestion of excessive mineral salts [in] ice cream, cheese, butter [and] milk . . . A good rule of thumb to insure ample dilution: two glasses of water for each glass of milk...