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...then, a bit of plot sprouts through the film's glossy surfaces, most of it familiar knavery about the assassination of a Middle Eastern Prime Minister. The P.M.'s life depends on Professor Peck's ability to drag himself away from his archaeological tomes and from Double Spy Sophia long enough to decode a message in hieroglyphics. Though Peck looks comfortable enough in the library, he resembles a stand-in for Gary Grant when he seeks refuge in Sophia's shower, fidgeting while the lady purrs: "Call me Yasmin-at least while...
...strike threatened to drag on for at least another week, the annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association came to town and provided one ironic footnote after another. While local newsmen were worrying about their jobs, publishers from all over the U.S. were complaining that they had something like two job openings for every available newspaperman. Nor does a merger necessarily mean less employment. Three hundred jobs were lost when the Los Angeles Times folded the Los Angeles Mirror in 1962; since then, the Times has hired 400 more people...
More Lift, Less Drag. The nuclear airship's size-177 ft. longer and 37 ft. greater in diameter than the Hindenburg-would give it an added advantage over even the largest of the old dirigibles, which Morse says were "just at the threshold of efficient performance." Doubling the length of a dirigible, for example, increases its weight four times, but provides an eightfold increase in lift...
...institutions of higher learning, Belgium 20 and France 40, while the Soviet Union has 719 and the U.S. 2,080. But the crux of the problem lies in the antiquated European grade and high school structure, which was progressive at the time of Napoleon and is now a positive drag...
...rapidly gone from bad to worse since last October's at tempted Communist coup. Rampaging anti-Communist students have forced so many Chinese merchants to close down and have seized so many Chinese schools that Red China last week complained to Djakarta that Indonesia stands by while "hoodlums" drag Chinese nationals to "forcible interrogations at secret torture chambers...