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...Schmidt story was not an easy one to report or to write. The world of quasar astronomy is one of nigh-incredible reaches in time, space and imagination. It involves unheard-of distances, temperatures and energy. It has its own logic and language, and it takes astronomy to the edge of theology, physics to the edge of metaphysics. It raises such questions as whether the universe came into being suddenly, or whether it existed forever-and in that case, what is "forever"? What is eternity? "The subject," says Science Writer Leon Jaroff, "makes the mind boggle, especially when...
...Manhattan, Bronzini last week installed an all-double-breasted window, within three days had sold 15 double-breasted suits and 30 sports jackets. At Man at Ease in Chicago, Proprietor Cesar Rotondi reports: "Double-breasted suits account for 50% of our suit sales. It's unheard...
Breathless also featured an alienated hero treated without sentimentality. But unlike Truffaut, Godard created an entire revolution in technique. Godard and his superb cameraman, Raoul Coutard, used a hand-held camera for the entire film, giving the director an unheard-of flexibility. Instead of planning the shooting meticulously as convention dictated, Godard created the film through the viewfinder and often used candid shots. Most of all, through both the camera-work and the editing, Godard insisted upon a constant impression of energy which was to infuse the enthusiasms of an entire generation of film-makers...
...that the problem should be that foreign to Americans. A Western sandwich isn't a Western out West: it's a Denver. California hamburgers are called doubleburgers in California; baked Alaskas are almost unheard of in Alaska; the grass is not blue in Kentucky; and in New York, a New York cut is called a boneless sirloin...
Such explanations seemed to go unheard. Bethlehem Board Chairman Edmund Martin was summoned to Washington for a confrontation with Ackley and White House Aide Joseph Califano. After 90 minutes, Ackley called in newsmen to repeat his foregone conclusion: Bethlehem's price move was unjustifiable. Meanwhile, other Administration officials warned executives of other steel companies against following Bethlehem's line. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, for one, tried to persuade Chicago's Inland Steel, next only to Bethlehem and U.S. Steel as a producer of structural shapes, to stand pat. Wirtz had every reason to believe that Inland...