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...pictures are semi-abstractions, but most look rather like landscapes. Hultberg borrows from De Chirico the trick of making deep, dark perspectives of converging lines. Instead of placing figures in his perspectives, Hultberg strews about a variety of three-dimensional symbols resembling portholes, ladders, wreckage, trap doors, sudden cliffs, wings and flying boxes...
Gold finds it somewhat harder to explain why the earth's axis is not migrating appreciably at present. He suspects that it may have been caught in a "trap." The axis tends to shift, he thinks, toward the region where glacial ice is melting fastest, moving one of the poles toward that same region. The climate there gets colder. The glaciers grow thicker. Then the axis and the pole move slowly back again...
Gold does not guess how long the trap will hold the axis. Eventually, he suspects, it will break away and carry the cold of the North Pole to Mexico or Japan...
...thought about raising margin requirements above the present 60%, Baruch retorted: "How can you really, in good conscience, say to a man he cannot buy stocks except on 100% when they can buy anything they like with nothing down? It just does not make sense." Fulbright tried to trap Baruch into endorsing the earlier testimony of Harvard Economist John K. Galbraith, who thought he saw some parallels between the current market boom and the period just before the 1929 crash. Baruch smoothly said he knew nothing of Galbraith "to his detriment," then added: "I think economists as a rule...
...Desperate Hours alternates scenes inside Howard Bay's clever two-floored house with quick snatches at police headquarters. The invaders make half the family go to work on pain of killing the other half at the slightest peep. Nor can the Hilliards set any trap that they won't also tumble into themselves. Even the police, after they have broken the story, can't shoot things out without maybe killing Hilliards instead of hoodlums...