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...survivors stands on a hill everlooking the remains of the bridge, its builder, and its destroyers, murmuring, for very good reason, "Madness...madness." Such fine touches of irony pervade the film, giving it a refreshing tartness that most war movies lack. Boulle has packed into his screenplay all the elements a good war movie ought to have: torture, escape, death, destruction, heroism, sacrifice, and so forth. But everything is seen freshly, with the eye of an artist instead of a hack...
...team had long since begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information to a teletype operator below, who in turn flashed it to Convair's San Diego headquarters...
...company prospered, but Oppenheimer was not content with gold. He liked diamonds. He spotted the possibilities in Southwest African fields captured from the Germans, and beat to the punch the stodgy starched-collared heirs of Cecil Rhodes, the legendary empire builder and diamond czar who died in 1902. Then he tackled the giant of the diamond world, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. He bored from within, buying stock on the Johannesburg exchange, share by share, until he had enough to become a director...
HOUSING Deep Dish To bring year-around outdoor living indoors. Builder Hillard Man last week showed a basement swimming pool in his new Eden Roc development at Smithtown, Long Island. For an additional $800, Man's new split-levels and Cape Cods ($19,500 to $25,200) will include a 12-by-18 ft. pool. The center of the indoor pool is deep enough for diving and its sides are shallow enough for wading...
...really involves, says Man, is a concrete-lined hole in the floor and an extra retaining wall. Builder Man's sales are going well. So far he has sold 20 houses with pools...