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...take over the camera), had dropped out, some of them being rescued by helicopter. Three of the native bearers were dead, 30 men were ill with dysentery and malaria. But their heroic physical ordeal had been a journey in time, back to the Stone Age, that will leave viewers wrung out and shirt-drenched in an air-conditioned movie house...
...moldering Venetian palazzo in the late 19th century sit two desiccated women. Miss Bordereau (Franchise Rosay) is 100 or so and has wrung life dry; her old-maid niece. Miss Tina (Wendy Hiller), has had life squeezed out of her. In swirls a worldly dandy, Henry Jarvis...
John Gunther, who still has to go Inside Australia, instead spent last summer on hauntingly familiar territory. Hopping from capital to capital, filleting his sources like sole meuniere, he wrung a wholly new book from the beat where he first made a name with Inside Europe a quarter-century ago. In Inside Europe Today he surveys the new faces and altered conditions of a continent that has "immeasurably, fantastically" changed since 1936. The most striking change he found is one that makes Inside Europe Today a less urgently important book than its doom-shadowed predecessor. This change, in Gunther...
...grey dawn of last fall's defeat, the Republican Party wrung its hands in anguished awareness of the fact that Jack Kennedy's 112,803-vote margin over Dick Nixon was the narrowest since the 1888 presidential race between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland. Last week, turning from anguish to analysis, the Republican National Committee issued a statistic-studded report on the 1960 voting trends. Items...
...clouds. When they fall through dry air, most of the ice evaporates, but tiny bits remain trapped in crevices. When these ice-seeded particles get mixed with a moderately cold cloud, they make it yield snow or rain. Mason argues that much of the earth's precipitation is wrung out of clouds by just such "trainable" earth-dust particles. Kaolinite and other kinds of clay are extremely cheap, so it may be possible to make sure that the air over thirsty countries always has plenty of just such particles-always ready, willing and able to precipitate clouds...