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...Billy Liar. Thousands cheer. Victorious in battle, laden with decorations for heroism, the beloved dictator smiles. He raises his arm in a smart, left-handed salute. Suddenly his mother begins banging a spoon against the banister downstairs: "Hey, your boiled egg is stone-cold." All right, luv. He goes to breakfast, gets ready for work, listens to Mum, Dad and Granny whining platitudes until he turns from his shaving mirror just long enough to mow them down with a tommy...
Lots of Chuckles. As for Goldwater, he had a somewhat less strenuous week, making his only major appearance in Hartford, Conn. There, he agreed that he would be happy to accept the G.O.P. nomination if it comes his way: "Any man would be a damned liar if he said he wouldn't." With that, the 200-member state Republican committee in Oklahoma shouted through a resolution pledging all 22 of the state's national convention delegates to the Senator...
...that, whatever the posture of the Chinese giant, Mao's regime legally does not exist. As for Moscow, it is employing against China the richly vituperative vocabulary built up in long years of excoriating imperialists, Trotskyites, deviationists and running dogs of fascism. The Russians called Mao a "foul liar" who is "trying to destroy the unity of the socialist camp" and charged the Red Chinese leaders with being "ready to sacrifice hundreds of millions of people in a nuclear conflict to establish world Communism." Peking trod just as heavily on Khrushchev's toe by asking...
...healthy man's head. After that, two minutes of bright and lissome speech can erase the memory of all previous commitments. In some such fashion, Englishmen of every status are falling in love with Julie Christie. Americans will soon get their chance - when a new picture called Billy Liar opens in U.S. moviehouses in September...
...summer, such as a Schweppes factory ("Ugh"), where she grew to hate the taste of bitter lemon. Then BBC-TV picked her up for a science fiction serial called A Is for Andromeda. Movies have weaned her away from television. Her first two were unnoteworthy, but now, with Billy Liar, which last week seemed most likely to win the top award at the current Venice Film Festival, she is established as a film star...