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...been for a castoff television aerial, John Pennel, 23, might be a ditchdigger today. He used to dig holes for fun on his father's farm in Tennessee. "I left holes all over the farm," he says. "I don't know why I did it. I just had this urge." Then he found an old roof top TV aerial and, using it as a sort of vaulting pole, began to go up instead of down. One leap led to another, and in 1959 he went to Northeast Louisiana State College on a pole-vaulting scholarship (room, board, tuition...
...Bardot, 28, began to look more and more like a Hall of Mirrors. Her new vehicle, Contempt, is all about a film troupe shooting a movie in Italy-and there she was in Rome, inspiring those shutterbug paparazzi to ruses yet untried. One even hired a helicopter to map aerial views of her epic epidermis; another, on location, succeeded only in scaring Bardot and the boy friend, French Actor Sami Frey, out of a bush. Well, the paparazzi might enjoy her, but many Italians decided that Brigitte was not their piece of pasta. Said Rome's II Messaggero...
...Cologne city hall window is almost like an aerial view of streets and highways, buildings and bridges-an intricate quilting of glass that seems to vibrate beneath the viewer's feet while at the same time it soars above his head. In the Schweinfurt window, the huge teardrops of grace fall not as a gentle blessing but as a blessed force. Meistermann's windows provide not rest but ceaseless rhythm...
...Ford executive named Charles E. Beck, now 41, whose assignment was to find companies for Ford to acquire. Beck saw Philco as a company without the money to capitalize on opportunities, but with an enviable record of scientific development: the first TV set that would operate without a roof aerial in 80% of U.S. homes, the first horizontal freezer compartment in the top of a refrigerator, the hermetically sealed compressor system for room air conditioners that has made possible today's compact air conditioners. Ford followed Beck's advice to buy Philco, put Beck in as president...
...closing action, Captain Vere is killed by a falling mast. His body lies in a pool of blood amidst the rubble of battle. Suddenly, the camera swings to an aerial shot of the duelling French and British ships. As the movie ends, the narrator assures the audience that despite the death of the innocent Budd, "history will see the victory of justice...