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...dingy Tokyo headquarters of the Democratic Party, the sounds of celebration began almost with the first returns. Though the Democratic Party is only three months old, it stole the thunder, many of the members and thousands of the votes of the recently dominant Liberal Party. Each time a Democrat's election was clinched, party workers pounded a lacquered drum and the crowd shouted, "Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!" By morning they had banzaied themselves hoarse...
...convincing reason. The returning adult hero has a perfunctory fling with an old flame in the big brass bed in which he slept as a youngster: "And when at last he possessed her, in a wholeness of possession he had never known or dreamed, past and present came thundering together." But the thunder is hollow: not for a moment is even the most optimistic reader allowed to think that Lawyer Page will really stay in that Southern brass bed rather than return to his lawful innerspring up North...
...sudden thunder of artillery that exploded the length of the German lines in Poland at 3 a.m. on June 22, 1941 signaled the start of Hitler's drive on Russia. Last week the Soviet government issued a proclamation which opened with a reference to that ominous day, but concluded: "The state of war between the Soviet Union and Germany is ended, and peaceful relations are established." The Soviet gesture came 3½ years after the Western powers ended their state of war with Germany. What alone gave it significance was its place in a steady procession of Russian moves...
...main objection to airport hotels in the past has been the thunder of passing planes. To deaden the sound to a comfortable sleeping level, Los Angeles' Hyatt House incorporated sound baffles and special soundproofing into the hotel's walls, suspended the ceilings. The La Guardia Hotel also hangs its rooms from flexible steel spring clips so that sound waves striking the building will not set walls to reverberating. With both hotels already heavily booked, Ritter and Von Dehn each plan to build similar hotels at other major U.S. airports...
...year boomed to a close in a thunder of publicity for the big holiday releases, two pictures stood out as notable Hollywood productions-and neither was made in Hollywood. John Huston's Beat the Devil, written by Truman Capote and shot in Italy, was a magnificent leg-pull: a kind of dipsoid tirade of brilliant comic invention, played with a cross-eyed, morning-after charm by a fine cast (Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre). On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan's burly piece of camereering along the docksides of Hoboken, had excellent photography, though the drama...