Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Customs men and censors make the crudest cuts: the girl's fingers move to the buttons of her blouse, and suddenly it's breakfast. Distributors make deeper cuts after films leave first-run houses, on the simple calculation that the shorter the film, the more times it can be run in any one day. When Rocco and His Brothers arrived here from Italy a year ago, it was a full, pasta-rich 180 minutes long. After a run in New York art theaters, it mysteriously shrank to 147, then pushed off for the rest of the nation...
...another, they were helped out. "In the morning, Willie Reddish asks who's got The Bear today," sighed "Slim" Jim Robinson, who has had difficulty lasting one round, "and I say, 'Don't tell me until after I've eaten. I want to enjoy my breakfast.' " Onetime Welterweight Champion Barney Ross watched Liston deck another sparring partner five times, wryly suggested that Trainer Reddish import zombies from darkest Africa. "Where else are you going to find training partners? He's the kind that knocks you on the chin and breaks your ankle...
...Head 'em up!" he yells. "Move 'em out! Let's go!" Before breakfast (two eggs, toast, tea), Liston hits the road for a fast-paced four-mile jaunt around a deserted golf course or over the cinders of an abandoned railroad track. "If your legs is good," he explains, "your wind is good...
...back home at the palace, awaits his official report card from his first term at his father's old school in Scotland, spartan Gordonstoun, where cold showers and sprints before breakfast are the rule. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 13, "was near the top in a class of 28," said Headmaster F.R.G. Chew. "Good average is the phrase-and he has settled in jolly well." The headmaster cleared up another point: the other kids call him Charles...
Lonely in the Sun. And this is important, for 85% of them are living on less than $5,000 a year, 11% on less than $1,000. "What you do," explained one octogenarian, "is sleep good and late in the morning. That way I eat a breakfast for lunch about 11 o'clock, and then I don't have to eat lunch at all. Sure I'm lonely. But it's better to be lonely here in all this sunshine than back in Cincinnati. The old neighborhood's gone...