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...momentarily out of peril, goes to work as chauffeur for a sleek, wealthy young widow (Lola Albright) and her nubile cousin (Jane Fonda). In their Italianate castle, practically everything is extraordinary. The cousin pretends to be the maid, although she wears Balmain originals. The widow talks to her mirror, and with reason. Behind its one-way glass dwells a former chauffeur, Vincent, missing since he murdered her husband two years earlier. Delon, who serves his employer unstintingly up to a point, eventually balks. "You and Vincent want to kill me," he whispers, embracing her. She smiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Through a Looking Glass | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...expected to hurt cigarette sales, but only to force the companies to shift their ads for some 100 brands to newspapers and magazines. The Daily Mirror's columnist Cassandra reassured smokers: "You'll still have the precious right to smoke yourself to death with a wonderful selection of brands at your suicidal disposal." But the restriction may not end with TV, if Labor has its way. Said Health Minister Kenneth Robinson: "The question of cigarette advertising in other media is still under consideration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: A Smokeless Screen | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...Urge. What the reforms seek to do is liberate the Soviet economy from the stifling economic dictatorship that Stalin imposed on it as a mirror image of his political tyranny. Determined to rush the transition to industrial power that had taken the U.S. and Britain 200 years to accomplish, he turned Russia into a gigantic state corporation that ruthlessly seized every bit of excess capital it produced in order to feed it back into its heavy industries-above all, steel-which are the sinews of a modern economy. With such a single-minded goal, planning was relatively easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Sipping Blood. The prospect can hardly be pleasing to Fleet Street; painful experience has long since taught British papers the wisdom of living within the rules. After the 1949 arrest of John George Haigh, who was accused of killing women and sipping goblets of their blood, the Daily Mirror chose to publish all the available gory details. The paper took care to disassociate its accounts of the VAMPIRE HORROR IN LONDON from the Haigh story, but no one was really deceived. Haigh was convicted and executed, but as a result of his suit against the Mirror, the newspaper was fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Rigid Restriction in Britain | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...over-the-counter represent companies that are not sufficiently large, seasoned or profitable to be listed on the major exchanges. But the OTC index of 35 stocks includes such mighty companies as Anheuser-Busch, Ethyl Corp., Rockwell Manufacturing, Grolier, Eli Lilly and Dun & Bradstreet. They are a remarkably reliable mirror of the entire OTC market: the most recent study showed that the average price of 538 nationally listed OTC stocks gained at a pace that was virtually identical to the OTC index's gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Over-the-Counter Revival | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

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