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Masters of the Congo Jungle (International Scientific Foundation; 20th Century-Fox) is an anthropological documentary film that was sponsored by King Leopold III of Belgium and photographed in Ruanda-Urundi and the Congo by a team of German cameramen. It makes a sort of safari through the soul of primitive man. For most of the distance, a spectator is apt to have the disturbing sensation that he is traveling through an endless python...
...heroine (Debbie Reynolds) is a hoofer who expected to wrap show business around her pretty little figure, but after two years of tryouts is still suckering sailors in a dime-a-dance hall-she stands for Experience. And the villain of the piece is the great big city, a sort of cold-water Sodom populated by pimps, prostitutes, land pirates, tourist trappers, gay young switchblades, softheaded bartenders and hard-nosed landlords...
...matter of inches. If you overdo it, you lose control of the car. Once you know you have lost control -that the car can do what it wants and not what you want it to do-it's a very frightening situation." But it is that sort of danger that Moss loves best. "Driving a racing car," he says, "is something I think I'll enjoy for as long as I live." Then he adds: "However long that...
...sort who sprouts baseball's legends. Groundkeepers swear that they have tape-measured his mighty wallops at up to 600 ft. Of his speed afoot, it has been hazarded that if a race were to be run between him and an oak tree, the smart money would ride on the oak. Sportswriters fondly recall his beer-drinking exploits, like the time he hopped off a Cincinnati Reds bus during a brief stop to buy a case of cold brew, downed two bottles while getting his change. Former teammates remember being unable to get into his hotel room because...
...sort of freedom for which they have long been arguing was recently extended to newspapers and radio stations in a Mississippi murder trial. The details of the case were particularly spicy: the defendant was a 20-year-old college student accused of killing his 31-year-old married mistress by wrapping a coat hanger around her neck. Given near-complete freedom of the courtroom by the presiding judge, newsmen tape-recorded testimony with equipment so sensitive that it could pick up the whispered conversations of the defense attorneys...