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...nearest thing to a blitzed city that I hope we ever see in this country." Some stunned survivors thumbed through Old Moore's Almanac for 1967 and laid the blame on the stars. Said Moore's: "From January to July, there are unfavorable signs relating to the timber industry. These are expected to manifest themselves in a number of almost disastrous forest fires when Mars forms a square to Jupiter...
...Excuse Needed. The episode fell like a spark on the dried-up timber of Sino-Soviet relations. As the Chinese students continued on their way, some of them conspicuously swathed in bandages, the Chinese embassy lodged "the most serious and strongest protest" and demanded that "the Soviet government publicly apologize." The entire staff of the Moscow embassy held a meeting to condemn the "fascist atrocity." In Peking, Russia's embassy was soon surrounded by a nonstop demonstration of Chinese students and soldiers in an ugly mood. Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi sent a cable promising...
Gregers Werle (Clayton Corzatte) is a man with a raging case of "integrity fever" who prates high-mindedly of "the claim of the ideal." His pinched nostrils seem to sniff moral pollution in the air. He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied slights to his dead mother. Taking lodgings in the modest household of a former classmate, Hjalmar Ekdal (Donald Moffat), Gregers uncovers more extensive proof of his father's evil ways. Not only did he bring lifelong disgrace to Hjalmar's father through a crooked timber deal...
...sign up for his $175,000 anachronism, dozens of inquiries from prospective customers here and abroad. Dirt cheap to operate and maintain, the Bushmaster 2000 may well be used for years to come for short-haul cargo and passenger services, specialized operations such as crop spraying, fire fighting, timber dusting, exploratory and rescue work...
...homemade automobile, the Anadol, a sprightly little sedan that will go into production next month. "We are up to our ears in projects," Demirel says excitedly. "There is plenty of copper, lead and zinc in eastern Anatolia. There is some oil. There are magnificent stands of hardwood and softwood timber. Tobacco is already thriving around Izmir. There is great potential for livestock. Our Mediterranean coastal beaches could bring us $100 million a year from tourism...