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Dickey is lucky that Boorman was the triggerman. Though he does not yet have the kind of reputation that immediately arouses expectations, the British-born filmmaker has shown a willingness to take on hackneyed material and push its freshest-elements to their most complex conclusions throughout his unheralded career. From Having a Wild Weekend to Point Blank to Hell in the Pacific to Leo the Last he has made poignant romance from rock group fantasy, existential comedy gangster shoot-em-up, psychological examination from World War II melodrama, revolutionary parable from absurdist fantasy. His record is not consistently successful...
...settlers have moved fast, and they are thinking far ahead. At coralline Sharm el Sheikh, now renamed Ophira, they are building hotels and planning still others to accommodate tourists. Hard-topped roads make access far easier than it was in 1967. At a new kibbutz on the Golan Heights, British-born Frank Donnel points to the freshly planted grass and trees. "Another ten years and you won't recognize the place," he says...
...neighbors in La Jolla, Calif., British-born Margaret Burbidge is an attractive woman in her 40s with a quiet, self-effacing manner. To her fellow scientists, she is also one of the foremost astronomers in the world, the wife of Physicist Geoffrey Burbidge, and the explorer of stars, galaxies and quasars. Yet, for all her success, the female half of the scientific team of B² (B square)-as their colleagues call the Burbidges-has faced many of the difficulties usually experienced by women who dare to venture into the male-dominated world of science...
Died. Dennis King, 73, actor; in Manhattan. British-born King began his 60-year career in the theater at the age of 14 as a callboy, and by 1925 achieved matinee-idol status portraying François Villon in Rudolf Friml's musical The Vagabond King. When he starred three years later in The Three Musketeers, one critic wrote: "He has the voice of a canary, the grace of a swallow and the valor of an eagle." Equally at home in operettas and Shakespearean tragedies, the versatile baritone counted A Doll's House, Billy Budd, Rose-Marie...
Opening the Door. In addition to Rich and Roderick, NBC's Tokyo Operations Manager lack Reynolds was also admitted, along with a two-man Japanese camera-sound crew. From Hong Kong, LIFE'S British-born John Saar and German-born Freelance Photographer Frank Fischbeck were given visas, as was Tillman Durdin, 64, of the New York Times, another old China hand who covered the Sino-Japanese War from Shanghai in the late 1930s and was the Times's Nanking bureau chief in 1948. Rich, Roderick and Durdin all applied for permission to open permanent bureaus in Peking...