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When Britain sold six Viscount turbo prop planes to Peking last month, one official said wryly: "We've sent six Viscounts to Communist China-seven if you count Lord Montgomery.''* But to the U.S. it was no joke. "We are not very happy about that sale." said Secretary of State Dean Rusk. The Treasury Department told the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. that it would withhold a U.S. license permitting its British subsidiary to supply British-made navigational gear for the Viscounts...
...afternoon, the Brown bear took a beating at the game. That thoughtless, blundering beast first dared to tangle with the battle-tested prop crew of the Harvard Band, and then it made an ill-advised tour of the Crimson stauds...
...feature motion picture outside the U.S. Susskind himself provided comic relief in the drive to meet the eight-day deadline. When he pontificated polysyllabically over the loudspeaker system, Olivier cracked: "He uses such big words I can't understand him." Once Susskind was accidentally bumped by a prop pickup truck bearing the words VIVA LA REVOLUCION. "Caramba!" shouted the actor-driver. "I just got my first gringo." But in the end David Susskind had demonstrated again what even his most articulate enemies will readily concede: he is responsible for some of the best material that has ever reached...
...Samuel asleep on a dirty mattress and apparently crawling with cockroaches-was posed. The photographer caught and distributed the roaches for his purpose. Still, the picture was no distortion of fact: in the Gonzaleses one-room apartment Cameraman Ballot found an inexhaustible supply of his crawling photographic prop...
...violence: on Brown & Williamson shows no actor is allowed to grind out a cigarette violently in an ashtray or stamp it out underfoot. "Whenever cigarettes are used by antagonists or questionable characters, they should be regular size, plain ends, and unidentifiable. But no cigarette should be used as a prop to depict an undesirable character. Cigarettes used by meritorious characters should be Brown & Williamson brands...