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...long melodramas, half on film and half live, usually seems deader than either, but it sat up and began to move last week with The Deadly Game, adapted by James Yaffe from a story by Friedrich Duerren-matt. A sales executive (Gary Merrill) stumbled out of a New England blizzard to find shelter in an old-fashioned mansion where four retired men in dinner jackets almost seemed to be waiting for him. They plied him with food and brandy, and he amiably agreed after dinner to join them in the parlor game that enabled them to practice once more their...
...made only two of the speeches. The third, an appeal for support of the Administration's foreign aid program, was delivered in part by Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, subbing for the ailing President. But the appeal, delivered well but secondhand, got snowed under in the blizzard of news about Ike's illness. In speechmaking as in policymaking, members of the President's team can take over some of his tasks, but there is only one man with the title and office, the power and prestige of President...
...nation's 77.9 million drivers, it was the week to do their Christmas window-shopping early. Detroit rolled its 1958 models and began to croon its annual siren sales song to the U.S. public. Out came a whole fleet of new cars in a blizzard of announcements promising "jet intakes," "bubble windshields," "flight-pitch transmissions," "Marauder engines"-even an ICBM look. There were downswept snouts, upswept fins and outswept taillights ; all were ablaze with dazzling colors and gleaming chrome brighter than any Christmas tree. Sighed a Detroit secretary, rapturously examining a trailerload of new 1958s; "Chrome is my favorite...
...each), McMahon got the wingding off in high gear by serving cocktails with breakfast on the flight to Fort St. John. There the guests were provided with more clothing-350 pairs of overshoes and 350 raincoats flown in from Vancouver. Eight chartered buses, which had churned through a blizzard from Edmonton to get there on time, took them to Westcoast Transmission's huge gas-scrubbing plant (TIME, Sept. 2). Then, at the turn of a valve, gas roared through the 30-in. pipe heading south for Vancouver, and a gas flame leaped symbolically skyward. Said Frank McMahon...
...snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles of under-ice highway are now under construction between Thule and Fist Clench, and no blizzard that blows will stop the trucks that...