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...refinements in turbines and the economies of extra-high-voltage transmission, the engineers think the Quoddy's tides can be economically tamed. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's plan-modeled on Cooper's 44-year-old proposal-calls for 71 miles of dams that will trap and control some 70 billion cu. ft. of sea water that floods into the Quoddy and Cobscook Bays with each tide. At high tide the water will flow into a "high pool" in Quoddy Bay. Then once a day during the period of "peak" power demand (from...
...arrests is that the Soviet apparatus seems sentimentally fond of such old cloak-and-dagger standbys as false bottoms in valises, hidden compartments in talcum-powder cans and toothpaste tubes, and flashlights with message chambers instead of batteries. A Russian spy's residence usually has as many trap doors, hollow beams, false walls, secret passages and double-and triple-locked doors as a Grade B horror movie...
...Tender Trap opened in 1954 with Ronny Graham on a couch in a clinch. This production features Tab Hunter as the beleaguered bachelor. Latham. N.Y.; Nyack, N.Y.; Dayton, Ohio; Miami...
...allowed almost no chance to make a defense; the jurors kept shouting things like "Skunk! A rope for his neck! A dozen bullets for his hide!") Cole avoids this by calmly letting the chilling facts of the trial speak for themselves. But in describing Vichy, he falls into another trap: the tendency to feel that Laval is somehow less guilty because Pétain, Darlan and others-who have not borne nearly so much blame-were just as guilty, and a lot less honest than...
Bryher's small, shapely book, like the handful of minor historical classics in which she has previously sought to trap various troubled and far-off times (Roman Wall, Beowulf), is nobody's guidebook to the important events of a historic day or decade. But it offers the details and textures of a particular age so pervasively known and felt by the author that it does not have to be clumsily insisted upon as scholarship. The figures who move in Bryher's historic landscape are neither makers nor victims of history. They are men, seen small, but with...