Word: tremoring
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...Luck, trotted out some more reminiscences on BBC's TV in a chat observing his 75th birthday. The Beaver paid tribute to such old departed friends as Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells, reaffirmed his 19th century devotion to the 19th century-brand empire. With a sentimental tremor in his voice, he closed: "This may be my last appearance on television, unless I am asked again when I am 80. Now I must go. My friends would celebrate because I am in my 76th year. A strange reason. I will celebrate, too. I won't be late...
...humor, the title piece focuses on a psychiatrist and his neurotic patient who stymie each other with the question, "What do you want?" The doctor finally admits that what he really wants is a new wing for his house in the suburbs. Going home, the patient glimpses the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun and sets his heart on something at once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near hysteria. In "The Hour of Letdown...
...daytime radio, including soap operas, has scarcely felt a tremor from the Cott bomb. Biggest upheaval comes on Sunday when a long parade of shows-long on drama, short on comedy-presents big stars, e.g., Helen Hayes, Fredric March, Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer rotating on hosting NBC Star Playhouse, Sir Laurence Olivier in The Royal Theater, Jimmy Stewart in Six Shooter, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Marriage. The most original...
...Such tremors are not normal earthquakes; they are specialties of Johannesburg. The City of Gold shakes more or less continually because of "rock falls" and "rock bursts" in the great mines under its skyscrapers. It gets from six to ten tremors a day. Most of them are less severe than the worst tremor last fortnight, which registered "four" on the scale of earthquake severity, and was equivalent in release of energy to the explosion of 4,000 tons of dynamite...
...gold-mining companies sometimes claim that the tremors have nothing to do with the mines, but Johannesburg's Bernard Prince Institute of Geophysics points out that there are 200 sq. mi. of gold workings under and close to Johannesburg. They slope down to 9,000 ft. below the surface. Often their roofs collapse or the rock of their walls shivers into flying fragments. "When you feel a tremor," said one engineer, "it may mean that under your feet men have just died as the rocks fell or as walls closed in on them...