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Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive film that takes moviegoers where many Manhattanites themselves fear to go, into the rat-infested tenement hovels of the bruisingly poor, the lower depths of the richest city on earth. The film piles melodrama too heavily on its plot, but the harsh-grained honesty of its photography and the improvisational candor of its script make every tabloid cliche about the soulless city bristle with fresh life...
...sold $5,700,000 worth of anhydrous ammonia to Estes, mainly on credit, hoping to be repaid from his grain-storage income. While no connection with the Estes case was evident, Pratt, asphyxiated by carbon monoxide in his car, left a bizarre note: "The bells even toll when a rat dies. The burden of guilt is on my shoulders...
...Alarm Clock. When Hunt and crew had a rat sleeping peacefully, they recorded its heartbeats on an electrocardiograph (300-350 beats per min.). Then they squirted it with a beam of silent, invisible, 250,000-volt X rays. In about 12 sec., the rat woke up, sometimes going into a violent "state of alarm." Its heartbeat would speed up too. But if the radiation continued for long, the rat would go to sleep again, like a human grown accustomed to a steady night-time sound...
Sinatra's Hollywood detractors dismiss the charity tour as a stunt to camouflage his unappealing Rat Pack image. His last two films have been box office successes, but critically, they were far below Sinatra's standard. Then, too, he has sailed rough weather lately. Juliet Prowse left him, mournfully considering his receding hairline. Worse, President Kennedy shattered Frank when, on his recent visit to California, he opted for Bing Crosby's Palm Springs digs instead of the new "Presidential Wing" Sinatra had tacked onto his own Palm Springs home in great expectations...
...There are only three plagues in the world," says an old Arab proverb-"the rat, the locust, and the Kurd." While Arab opinion may be biased, it is true that through the centuries the Kurds have deserved their reputation as troublemakers. Living in the grandly forbidding mountain country that straddles the borders of Iraq. Turkey, Syria, Iran and Russia, they have always been in a state of rebellion against outside discipline. After World War II, Russia happily used the disgruntled Kurds to harass the other "host" countries. Last week the Kurds were at it again, waging war against the Iraqi...