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...feel that the male should be taller than the female. The tall man thus has all of womankind to choose from; the short man must make do with the little woman. In the movies, either the romantic hero is tall or the heroine is photographed standing in a trench. Violins never throbbed for Mickey Rooney; false eyelashes never fluttered at Edward G. Robinson...
...north, Chile lies along the "circle of fire," a ring of volcanoes and seismic fault lines that encircle the Pacific Basin. The west coast of South America, in particular, is a storm center of seismic shocks set off by the depth and turbulence of the Peru-Chile trench offshore. One such shock struck Peru in May 1970, killing an estimated 50,000 people. The Chileans too have paid a heavy price for their geography. Some 3,000 Chileans were killed in the 1906 earthquake, 30,000 in 1939 and 5,000 in 1960. The last serious quake occurred...
LESSON TWO. Engage the enemy far from your trench line. In the freewheeling 1950s intelligent managements sought to keep their lists of stockholders out of dissidents' hands as long as possible. Rather than use a series of expensive legal obstacles, GAP declined to furnish the challengers with the computer tape of the list and made them copy it by hand...
...rate of movement into the trenches is almost imperceptible-no more than an inch or so a year. But Geophysicist Robert C. Bostrom and Civil Engineer Mehmet A. Sherif think that some of the more conveniently located trenches could be used as efficient geophysical garbage dumps. The trick, they explain in Nature, would be to dump packaged waste into the sea off the mouths of fast-flowing rivers, which annually wash vast amounts of mud into continental trench areas. Though the garbage would not be drawn far into the earth for many years, it would soon be buried so deep...
...sociology" at the Sorbonne, Jones' accounts of riots and forums are centered about the Cinema Committee. I don't know how verite his depiction is: it certainly does not jive with the strike film that was actually produced. And it is doubtful that anyone agreed to let a trench-coated Hollywoodian develop a love-storyline to attract international filmgoers (one which is, supposedly, scrapped...