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This modest beginning in research, however, has already produced remarkable returns. Papermakers have invented everything from noiseless popcorn bags to paper tents, are currently working with textile manufacturers to develop paper suitable for disposable surgical gowns, bed sheets and men's shirts. Paper coated with plas tic or aluminum is much used in food packaging. Other new products...
...save it. Mayor Wagner, who had promised to hold fares down, would tolerate none of that. Roared Weinberg: "Somebody's a liar. Mayor Wagner says the company can operate with a 15? fare. I say it can't." Then Weinberg tried a whipsawing tac tic that he had previously used on balky city governments in Scranton, Pa., Dallas and Honolulu. Without higher fares, he warned. Fifth Avenue Coach would have to lay off 1,500 workers and cut down Sunday and night service. He began by sacking 29 workers, many of them old-time employees disabled...
...laments, "what a shame." He still keeps a lock of hair in an envelope), grew a thick mustache and blackened it with mascara, put on horn-rimmed glasses, stuffed a lump of metal in his right boot to force a limp and affected a severe facial tic...
...scenarist, Ivan Moffat (Giant), and an astute director, Henry King (The Sun Also Rises). King faced his biggest problem in Actress Jones, and the problem wasn't only age: in recent films the lady has limited her expressions largely to a toneless hysterical laugh and an alarmingly sick tic. But in Night she is well cast as a neurotic, and does her best work in a decade. Moffat for his part firmed up and rounded out the novel's plot and people, and he has diluted Old Fitzgerald with a spritz of psychiatric competence. What emerges...
...member of a less than affluent monas tic community whose school enjoys only a regional reputation, may I voice a quiet demurrer to the notion that monasticism in the 20th century is likely to solve the ancient antinomy, action-contemplation, by the efforts of pressagent monks or by an exodus from our monasteries to search for activity in the world at large...