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...enough, Chairman Coles and his staff have festooned it with added gadgets manufactured in basement workshops. They can simulate an eclipse of the sun, complete with corona and Baily's beads. They can work up their own thunderstorms: dark clouds move across the dome as lightning flickers and thunder rumbles in the public address system. Added switches on the control panel can send a shower of meteors drifting down the sky. Fireballs flash and explode overhead...
High Commissioner Conant yesterday sharply denounced the attack of two Communist MIGs on an American F87 thunder...
Maybe somebody, come to think of it, has already written this badly-needed volume, and this year's selection committee is hiding it from us. Yes, by thunder, that's it! What else could account for the excellent grasp of theory the committee displayed? Look at it this...
...pods and lay the blue-green beans out to ferment and dry in the midday sun. The retail trade is handled by the "mammy-traders"-fat old market women, usually illiterate but smart enough to own and operate fleets of heavy trucks. Day & night, the "mammy-trucks" thunder down to the sprawling shantytown ports where fishermen put to sea in dugout canoes. The trucks bear striking legends: "The Lord Is My Shepherd-I Don't Know Why"; "Accra to Takoradi-With God's Help Anything Is Possible...
...sculptures from the 6th century to the 19th. They were all masterpieces, all precisely naturalistic and all as traditional as tea. On opening day, 25,000 people crushed into the National Gallery to see a regal, 8th century statue of the Buddhist saint Shuho-o, paintings of black-faced thunder gods, delicately colored trees, birds and flowers. A popular favorite: a dryly humorous Scroll of Animals (1100 A.D.) which shows monkeys, rabbits, and frogs playing like merry children. Next stages on the show's tour after a month in Washington: Manhattan, Seattle, Chicago, Boston...