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...produce sufficient distortion for the orienting response. A telephoto lens creates distortion of another sort; distance is compressed rather than stretched out. The use of a long lens in Lisette Model's "Street Scene" results in the compression of an incredibly fat woman into a two-dimensional, half-ton, endomorph...
...Prime Minister Gladstone as the original Grand Old Man asked after dinner: "This is very good port they have given me, but why have they given it to me in a claret glass?" After unanswerable questions like that, Bertie developed the confidence he needed to decide that New ton's calculus was "a tissue of fallacies" and to begin his historic collaboration with Alfred North Whitehead, his senior in college. That resulted, after ten years' labor, in the publication of Principia Mathematica, named after Newton's great work, which in many respects it superseded. Almost as soon...
...tune as he sweated in the dust of Phu Cuong, twelve miles northwest of Saigon, building homes for Vietnamese refugees. An adept at the ancient art of cumshaw and cajolery, Worrall overcomes the perennial shortages of materials by canvassing battlefields in a borrowed "deuce-and-a-half" (2½-ton army truck) and scavenging useful debris like 105-mm. ammo boxes, which he pounds into A-frames for his buildings...
...Gaulle himself was too busy to attend the ceremony. He had journeyed to Cherbourg, where, with imperial pride, he launched France's first nuclear-powered submarine, the 5,200-ton Le Redoubtable. Built at a cost of $143 million, the submarine will eventually be fitted with French-built, Polaris-type missiles (range: 1,245 miles) to beef up De Gaulle's fledgling force de frappe; De Gaulle hopes to build three more by 1974. "I am very happy," said the General. "This is a capital day for our defense and for our independence." De Gaulle was saying...
Strip mining is a simple, productive and inexpensive method of mining coal, both hard and soft; it accounts for one-third of the nation's total 500 million ton annual output. Big power shovels rip off the topsoil, then bite into the underlying seams to depths of more than 100 feet and load the coal onto trucks. But far too often, irresponsible strip miners, operating under ancient mineral-rights leases, have mined the land and simply moved on, leaving behind a fearful legacy of tormented earth. In West Virginia alone, strip miners are tearing up land at the rate...