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...Allied Artists' warlike Hell to Eternity, Actress Patricia Owens does a bump-and-grind sequence in bra and panties for alien observation, is seen only from the neck up in the U.S., or. in long shots, wearing a bra and half-slip. Soon after that, for export only. Actor Jeff Hunter reaches skillfully behind her back, at which moment the U.S. version fades out, but in full detail the subsequent unhooking ceremony is seen and heard around the world...
...most Western wives this outburst of female chauvinism came as a shocking surprise. The mating of East and West has generally worked out well in Pakistan, providing the alien bride 1) adopts Islam, 2) accepts the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., never talks to her husband's male friends, 3) learns to wear a sari or salivar (baggy pants) and kameez (a sort of knee-length blouse. "Dressed like that," sighed a Moslem dowager of her son's sari-clad wife, "how could she be anything...
That meow was too much for one alien wife, Mrs. Joan Das of Bombay. "Pity the poor Western wife!" she answered. "If she brings her national customs over to India, she is being hopelessly insular; and if she tries to adopt Indian customs, she becomes hopelessly ridiculous. I am hanging on to my saris, because I have faith in India and Indians. I can hardly believe that every Indian I have met during the past ten years, while paying me compliments with his lips, has secretly been laughing up his sleeve...
...cumbersome, confining space suit and strapped firmly to a couch, he will be able to perform only the simplest of manual tasks during his tour around the earth. His real job: to act as a human guinea pig for astrophysiologists, supply information on human behavior in the alien environment of space. Says Martin Co.'s Robert Demoret: "The important thing is to determine whether he can function effective, ly once he is up there. And that can only be done with any certainty by putting him out in space." The safe return of Russian Space Mutts Strelka and Belka...
...comfortable thing for a man who works in safety to pass judgment on another man caught up far from home in an alien, so-called 'court' for a 'criminal mission' on which his superiors had sent him,'' wrote White. "The easy, the sentimental way would be to sympathize with Powers-to say that, after all, he had his life to save and so why should he not have cooperated with his Russian accusers. But this would be a view as stickily dishonest as it would be superficially compassionate...