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...best, this earnest little melodrama resembles a bantam version of The Longest Day. Again the pin-up role is assigned to Irina Demick, described unpersuasively as "a girl who blows up bridges" for the French Resistance. When the Allies throng ashore, Irina and a doughty band of villagers who have sallied forth as a welcoming committee are being held hostage by the Germans. The G.I.s who liberate them include wry-smiling Sergeant Cliff Robertson and the inevitable New York Jewish joker (Red Buttons) assigned to all units for comedy relief. Since the village is under siege, Cliff is ordered...
...Hail to All: the $147,900 Belmont Stakes, last and longest (at H mi.) of the Triple Crown races for three-year-olds; at New York's Aqueduct track. Ridden by Johnny Sellers and third choice of the bettors at 5-2, Mrs. Ben Cohen's plucky colt, born with a slightly deformed rear leg, rallied from fourth place in the stretch to beat Preakness Winner Tom Rolfe by a narrow neck...
White's excursion was the outstanding feature of a 62-orbit voyage which end Monday afternoon, when the capsule, containing White and James McDivitt is scheduled to parachute to earth. The sight is the longest, the highest and the most ambitious yet attempted by the United States...
...heroine of the title story is Melba Toast, "the skinniest stripper in America." Blonde and randy, Melba wears the longest fake eyelashes in New York and the tightest clothes. Aging millionaires delight in lending her their Cadillacs and shower her with $100 bills. Melba is a direct descendant of Lorelei Lee in Anita Loos's 1925 bestseller, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and, like Lorelei, has a mousy girl friend to come along on double dates...
...Southwest Conference track meet in College Station, Texas, just a week after he had smashed the old world record with a toss of 69 ft. ¾in., Texas A. & M.'s Randy Matson, 20, threw the 16-lb. metal ball five times, each time topping 67 ft. His longest put established a fantastic new record of 70 ft. 7 in. Sighed Baylor University Coach Clyde Hart: "One day, we'll see Matson peel off his A. & M. warm up suit, and underneath he'll have on a cape and a big S on his chest. Then...