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On the prowl for fresh backgrounds at low cost, U.S. independent moviemakers have lately been shooting pictures abroad, with a U.S. star or two for box-office bait. Two samples:
Leaving to take her strip-tease talent on a tour of England, Gypsy Rose Lee obliged shipboard photographers with samples (see cut), called her sister June (Affairs of State) Havoc to get in on the bon voyage act for plugs all around.
"I watched G.I.s start this thing, with their ready response to 'Gum, chum?' shouts by English kids, their handout cigarettes in France, even their swapped watches when they met their allies, at that time the Russians. EGA, in similar spirit and greater substance, continued the job. This governmental...
"We can't stop at samples. I study the advertising pages of our Atlantic Edition, which each week take to Europe, Africa and the Middle East news about U.S. goods-earth-moving equipment, tractors, pumps, motors, machine tools, business machines, washing machines and refrigerators. The advertisers tell about goods...
Not the least of the Pentagon's complexities is the complex problem of simplifying itself. For the past two years, a civilian firm of management consultants has been studying its problems. Louis Johnson abolished several hundred long-standing committees that past Pentagonians had set up and forgotten. Samples: the...