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...Actor Tamblyn goes tumbling about Tom Thumb's bedroom-skinning the cat on a baby's crib that is actually 55 ft. long, doing cartwheels on a top hat that is 16 ft. high. There are some fairly funny sight gags, too. When Tom slides down a rope into the royal treasury, the first thing he sees is a potato sack with a gleaming label on it: GOLD. Jaw dropping, he turns to the next sack. The label reads: MORE GOLD. Best of all, there are two of the most ludicrously sinister villains (Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers...
Chief target of the bureau's new service will be the jet stream itself, which is generally found around 30,000 ft., sometimes blows faster than 230 m.p.h. The jet stream is not easy to keep track of; it snakes and thrashes around like a whipping rope, changing both speed and altitude. A jetliner that gets into its core may arrive at its destination hours ahead of schedule with its tanks still heavy with unburned fuel. But judging by the experience of Air Force pilots, whose jet bombers have been flying the unfamiliar highways of the upper...
...wages of distraction make their appearance in no uncertain terms when Shimizu attempts to deal with the figure. In Wind Child, Rope Jumper and Red Mantle, the walls come tumbling down. Here are problems which cannot be sidestepped. Rope Jumper epitomizes the situation. Against a sensitively painted background Shimizu has superimposed a figure which does him no credit at all. It is coy, purposeless and arbitrary...
...showcases," does not feel that anti-Communism is a creed for men to live by. "Communism should be fought, but the Church cannot be defined as anti-anything. It approaches people simply as human beings." In India, a religiously sophisticated nation, conversion is never a matter of "trying to rope people into the show, and a sense of God is taken naturally by the Indians," according to Newbigin. The main growth of Christianity is now taking place in the villages, by word-of-mouth rather than organized preaching...
...Rope and Chains. It was not that the Prime Minister had gone unduly democratic. Always the courtly squire in the artistocratically rumpled suit, he responded to crowds with a wave that seldom took his arm above his shoulder, and they liked him for not trying to be what he was not. Accompanied by his Lady (who is a daughter of the late ninth Duke of Devonshire, and showed herself pleasantly old-shoeish), Macmillan neatly dodged political questions, mumbled his way through a string of "Splendids," "Jolly goods," and "God bless you alls." Instead of putting people off, his very proper...