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...true-confession anecdotes to tell how woebegone Eleanor Parker was deceived by a marine; how News Reporter Patricia Neal abandoned her husband to gallivant around the world, and how temperamental Ruth Roman fatally bashed her betrayer over the head with a desk ornament. Of the men concerned in this welter of babies and pliant ladies, Frank Lovejoy is effective as a disenchanted husband and Ted de Corsia is all right as a philanderer's front...
...Questions. Since Brazil is too vast and loosely knit for parties to develop rigid principles or programs, no clear-cut campaign issues had emerged. Instead, the Big Three and their parties entered into a welter of double-decking local deals and cross-endorsements that aligned them in some states with lesser parties and local chieftains, and in some states with each other. Amid such entanglements, even the outlawed Communist Party found little difficulty in sneaking names onto the candidates' lists of one party or another all over Brazil. Politicos were too glad to pick up any added support...
...Boyd's week begins calmly enough on Thursday and moves like a rising pressure gauge through a welter of pictures, photostats, magazine dummies, make-up forms and teletypesetter copy to a climax around 3 a.m. on Tuesday when he gets the final "We are ready to say goodnight" from the printing plants. By that time all of the editors' picture and production requirements have been settled to the best of Boyd's and his assistants' ability. They have probably combed the country to find the one right picture to illustrate some special story. They may have...
...welter of stories one hard fact stuck out: the white-haired, 57-year-old prelate had left his red brick palace and flown across Canada to the seclusion of a Catholic nursing home in Victoria. At midweek, an archdiocesan official confirmed his presence there "for a prolonged rest"; Apostolic Delegate Ildebrando An-toniutti would add nothing more...
Zigzagging Nuclei. When the uranium is set off and its temperature rises to millions of degrees centigrade, the whole mass of mixed or layered ingredients will turn into a welter of speeding, zigzagging nuclei, shot through with neutrons and powerful gamma rays. If the bomb is properly designed, many of the collisions will form helium, and each new helium nucleus will release its bit to the bomb's explosive energy...