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...EASY LIFE. In this brilliant tragicomedy from Italy, Vittorio Gassman is the hedonistic hell-raiser who rescues a shy young student from his books, squanders his money, and seals his doom...
...over the sleepy, sun-baked capital of the world's newest "people's republic." Cuban-trained "freedom fighters" sporting Fidelista beards and berets stalked the narrow twisting streets. Carloads of whooping blacks careered through the Arab and Indian quarters, looting and shooting. Radios blared ominous messages of doom and death. From the hood of one car dangled a grisly trophy: the testicles of a murdered Arab...
...acted confident of getting it. "I am sure they will approve the move when they hear my case," he said. Not a chance. Kansas City was up in arms. Missouri Senator Stuart Symington was screaming for "justice," and there was talk of a congressional investigation that could spell doom for baseball's special exemption from federal antitrust laws. Besides, the other owners had long regarded Charlie Finley and his antics with ill-concealed dislike...
...very nicely, thank you, with both its debs Gretchen Boyer, 18, and Janet Coates, 18. Even so, the friendly "Hey there, nice to see you" spirit of such Texans as Lucy Ross, 18, won the loudest applause. And the Texas gals drew well-modulated oohs with ever-deeper, doom-defying curtsies that started when Bonnie Bowman, 19, gracefully dipped her forehead to within a wisp of touchdown...
...NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY. "We are not taking any needless risks for peace. But neither are we foreclosing the future. We have no desire to perpetuate the burdens and dangers of the cold war, no ambition to doom mankind to the accumulated folly of an intensified arms race, no wish to convince the Soviets that even reasonable proposals will be rejected by us without fair or adequate consideration...