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...Mink (Rank; Continental). Terry-Thomas is a minor British comedian with a mouth like a disappointed mail slot, gaunt but somehow flaccid cheeks, cavernous eye sockets containing soggy blue objects that look as if they had sat all night in a glass of water, self-energizing mustaches, and a gap between his two front teeth that has earned him a reputation in English restaurants as a man who can eat peas with his teeth clenched. He has mastered the wax-fruity manner of the pushy little pip-pipsqueak, up from dreary digs, who would dearly love to be accepted...
...nearly 26 million homes per minute, granted all three networks the first simultaneous rise in years. CBS, with a 4% increase in audience size over the same period last season, retained its lead with a nighttime Nielsen of 20.1. ABC, registering an impressive 15% gain, nearly closed the gap with a 19.2 rating. NBC, Huntley-Brinkleymanship and all, dropped into third place, with a 17.3 average and a mere 1% increase...
...this point, however, Dartmouth, led by George Ramming, came back to close the gap, but Borchard continued his hot streak to stretch the Crimson's edge to 24 to 26 with a few minutes remaining...
Fidel Castro's gift last week was another shrill speech, in which he threatened the entire world with economic aggression if the U.S. does not buy Cuban sugar. If other suppliers fill the gap in the U.S., cried Castro, he will wreck the trade by dumping sugar. If he meant what he said, he would also wreck the economy of Cuba, the world's largest exporter...
...After years of congressional neglect and feeble leadership in the Civil Aeronautics Board, the U.S. lagged so badly in airway control that the jet age has caught the nation dangerously unprepared. Until electronic devices are perfected to control the airways, the FAA must depend on humans to close the gap and to try to eliminate such tragedies as the collision over New York a fortnight ago (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...