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Goldfinger. A grey sports car spirals lazily up an Alp. Looks like any other Aston Martin? Look again. This rod has bulletproof windows, and can change license plates at the flick of a switch. Its radioscope tracks a bugged automobile 240 km. away. From vents in the rear it releases a smokescreen and an oil slick. From ports in the grille it protrudes a pair of machine guns. What's more, the rear axle of the chariot is armed with bladed hub caps that telescopically extend to chew up the rubber of an overtaking vehicle. And if the driver...
...Full Ashtray. Ferraris are too popular; a Jaguar sedan is still O.K., but avoid Lincoln Continentals-press-agents drive them. Get an Aston-Martin. Renting a car is acceptable. Warren Beatty gets a new one whenever the ashtrays are full...
...Caretaker" the three bodies are two schizophrenic brothers and a bum. The younger brother, Mick (Donald Berry), has given a dilapidated old house to his brother Aston (James Leo Herlihy) so that Aston will have a job: fixing up the house. It is into the small, cluttered garret of this house--Aston's bedroom--that Aston brings a sly, slavering vagrant, Davies (Richard Shepard), for shelter...
...course of the play (though very long, it seems short in this production), Mick remains fixed: passionately protective of his brother, yet reserved to the point of paralysis in his presence; liable to manic outbreaks and attacks on Davies, and prodded by his own dreams of progress. Aston, his brother, also does not change: ever dreamy, ever puttering with broken appliances in the expertly littered set of Bonny Wooldridge, he never raises his voice, never moves suddenly...
...fence pole, spun into a ditch, and burst into flames. The fastest car in the race, a prototype 4.9-liter Maserati, led for the first two hours (averaging about 120 m.p.h.), then pulled into the pits, and was not seen again. The U.S.'s Phil Hill, driving an Aston Martin, topped a hummock at 150 m.p.h. to find a car rolling over and over directly in front of him; swerving off the road to avoid a crash, Hill damaged his gearbox beyond repair. When the checkered flag finally fluttered, only 13 cars, out of 49 starters, were still running...