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Once again the largest slice of U.S. defense-production outlays for the fiscal year went to California. Companies in the state took in $5.8 billion in prime contracts, more than double the total amount that went to New York State firms. Because of Viet Nam, the defense output grew from about $27 billion in fiscal '65 to nearly $36 billion. Shares for the top states in billions...
...village, he contrives to involve the captain, giggling and wriggling under ribbons and rouge, in some transvestite titillations that are altogether too sweaty for comfort. And in the last reel he runs through one of those big silly battle sequences in which six Yanks take on 600 Germans, slice them up like liverwurst, recapture the village without a casualty. Daddy, in a word, found war hellarious...
...chair, nibbling at flowers . . . second cousin to an octopus on a chaise longue." And he is overly fond of metaphors of cuisine: "Well-done with French-fried potatoes and salad thrown in on the side" (The Unsinkable Molly Brown); "a disillusioned slice of life with no butter" (A Taste of Honey...
Though their playing has exquisite style, Caine and Newman merely provide teatime treats in this slice of Victorian gingerbread adapted from the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) reveals an unexpected gift for utter nonsense, using every period cliché and corny camera trick that might imaginably be fermented into vintage black comedy. Some of the gags crumble on impact, others are stretched out like taffy, but there is enough fun left over to leave most moviegoers happily wallowing in greed, sex, homicide, body snatching and other nefarious diversions...
...years ago was St. Louis-born Sculptor Walker Hancock taken on to finally finish the grandiose project. There is not likely to be any further delay. Today drillers, directed by walkie-talkies, are using jet torches that burn a kerosene-oxygen mix at 3,500° F. and can slice away as much granite in a day as Borglum's stone chippers could accomplish in three weeks...