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...Laurentiis first embarked on his epic, he envisioned a ten-hour film, costing $25 million and depicting nearly all the still waters and flaming furnaces, from Creation to Gethsemane. When he actually started shooting the picture in Rome last May, he had boiled it down to a mere three-hour, $15 million Technicolor frieze of episodes from Genesis 1-22, with Christopher Fry writing the script and a cast of a dozen stars, including Ava Gardner, as the Mother of the Jews, and John Huston, who plays Noah and also directs the film...
Despite his 72 years, Tito himself looked remarkably fit, and his hair, doubtless with the help of his barber, still showed scarcely any grey. He betrayed his age only by taking a 45-minute recess midway in his three-hour speech; in the old days, Tito could go on for hours without getting winded...
...Albania from Axis occupation. It was wasted effort. Albania flexed its puny muscles with an 85-minute parade through Tirana's normally trafficless streets, and the military display included a few rockets, probably donated by Red China. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha ranted his way through a three-hour speech hailing the removal of Khrushchev but blasting the new Soviet leadership for its failure to rehabilitate Stalin, who, said Hoxha, was a great Marxist-Leninist even though "he may have committed some small errors." Hoxha sneered that the new Soviet leaders "would like to have us Albanians...
...their manufactured desert town through 15 sonic booms over a three-hour stretch. So well did the buildings bear the booms that a disappointed CBS camera crew left before the show was over. Then, for that inevitable one last picture, a Starfighter was ordered to make a low-level pass at subsonic speeds. But the pilot miscalculated, the speed indicator climbed, and the results were spectacularly embarrassing. Just as FAA Deputy Administrator Gordon Bain was answering a reporter's question about the psychological reaction to sonic booms, a walloping blast shook the walls, Bain and the newsmen...
...Wrong Name? At the General Convention, the bishops this year sided with the High Churchmen. By a vote of 79 to 56, they passed a resolution proposing that "the official name of the church be changed by expunging the word Protestant from its title." After a stormy, three-hour debate in the House of Deputies, priests and lay delegates instead suggested adding a preamble to the church's constitution, recognizing "the Episcopal Church" as a lawful alternate designation and the term best suited for everyday use. Most of the delegates seemed pleased by the compromise, which merely sanctifies what...