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...audience is not merely stimulated, it is all but electrocuted. Even the huge CinemaScope screen seems hardly big enough to carry the mass scenes. And yet, through the pelt of colors and the whirl of action, Carmen herself holds the eye-like a match burning steadily in a tornado. Actress Dandridge employs to perfection the method of the coquette: by never giving more than she has to, she hints that she has more than she has given-and sometimes even more than she really has to give...
According to Meteorologist Morris Tepper, the thing for tornado predictors to watch for is a "pressure jump." When conditions are right, as they all too frequently are in tornado regions, the air contains an "inversion," a layer whose temperature is sharply different from the air above or below it. Since cold air is heavier than warm air, the boundary between the layers may have "gravity waves" in it, just as the ocean has waves in the boundary between water...
...Weather Bureau thinks that its jump-line detectors can be made in quantity for less than $100 each. Spotted through tornado areas in police stations and other always-open institutions, they should enable the weathermen to keep track of each jump-line as it moves crosscountry. Since the average speed of the tornado-triggering wave is only about about 35 m.p.h., the weatherman should have time to give plenty of warning...
Everybody in Brazil knows about Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, or just plain "Chato." To some, Chato, a 63-year-old human tornado, is "a pirate from Paraiba" (his home state) ; to others he is the "only man in Brazil who gets things done." The boss of 28 newspapers, 19 radio stations, five magazines and two TV stations (TIME, June 8, 1953), Chato has channeled his efforts into every field, from organizing free milk stations to setting up Sao Paulo's first art museum...
...recent disaster operations," he said severely, would force Red Cross to return to its prewar policy of making special fund drives to help stricken cities rather than continuing to furnish aid out of its general fund. As a case in point, Harriman pointed to Flint, Mich. When a disastrous tornado hit Flint last June, he said, the Red Cross spent $600,000 to help victims. Meanwhile, a special committee in Flint was raising more than $900,000 in relief funds. Did the Red Cross get any of its money back? Said Harriman: "Not one cent of this was turned over...