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...huge majority of club members grow extraordinarily loyal to their clubs. Though most will admit that status considerations were uppermost in their miinds when they first joined a club, they now value their club experience for the close friendships they have formed. One member of the Faculty, himself a club man, feels that the clubs serve a positive function by temporarily taking the Harvard undergraduate's mind off himself and his work...
When outdoor commotion is uppermost, which means most of the time, Director Frankenheimer barrels along on a track that really wails. The art train steams toward, then away from, the German border, cunningly diverted by a Resistance plot that disguises whole villages along the route. It squeaks through a spectacular 50-second bombing raid in which a Nazi armored train is pulverized-a scene achieved with 140 charges of dynamite, nine cameras, several dozen expendable engines and boxcars purchased from French National Railroads, and considerable ingenuity on the part of Special Effects Ace Lee Zavitz (who arranged the burning...
...affairs De Gaulle rules absolutely. Everything he does is calculated and stage-managed, every movement planned with grand destinies in view. Even when reading newspapers "only one thought is uppermost in his mind: his image as a historical figure." On road trips through the provinces De Gaulle gives precooked three to six-minute speeches in small towns, twenty-minute orations in large ones; a dozen times a day the General's itinerary calls for him to say "a few words to the people." Even the catechism of the press conference is carefully rigged, with coached interrogators planted in specific seats...
...greet most of it with a knowing and unexcited air. When Judy Garland sang Over the Rainbow last year, a three-year-old female sophisticate said: "She always wears her hair in braids, you know." But Judy's Dorothy, as a matter of surprising fact, is not the uppermost character in the children's minds any more. To them, she is just another frosted cornflake...
...must eat lefthanded, has difficulty brushing his teeth, cannot handle small coins with his right hand. Obviously scarred by his involvement, he sobbed recently during a television interview about the assassination. At a press conference last week, he said: "More than ever before, I have tried to keep uppermost in my mind what things are of lasting value and to be grateful for the time I have, to be more aware of the things you really hold dear and to be constantly grateful for the things you really know in your heart to be of lasting value and strength...