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...WRONG BOX. Directed by Bryan Forbes (King Rat), this black but buoyant British comedy features Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, John Mills and Peter Sellers as a group of improper Victorians scrambling after love or money in the gaslight...
...tough measures, Wilson has not succeeded in restoring sterling to a strong, buoyant position. As a result, the talk in Britain among politicians and economists has turned increasingly toward devaluation of the pound as the only option left to Wilson if sterling comes under another severe attack...
...YANGTZE, read the identical headlines. At an annual swimming meet on July 16 in the city of Wuhan, the 72-year-old "greatest leader of the people of the world" had trod "firmly" down the gangplank of a motor launch in the Yangtze, "with glowing ruddy cheeks and in buoyant spirits." There, in the presence of "tens of thousands," Mao Tse-tung swam and floated nine miles downstream in 65 minutes, talking politics at times with a provincial party secretary and even pausing to give a young lady swimmer a lesson in the backstroke...
...hard to refute. Mrs. Keyes (rhymes with eyes) is a very nice old lady of 81 who sells all the books she can write. Of the 47 that she has published since 1919, not counting this one, nearly half have been bestsellers. This one is already bobbing, a buoyant cork, on the bestseller lists...
...floating vision in white. Dancing with the Paris Opera's Attilio Labis, she portrayed a maiden-monarch torn between love and duty, melting from sternly regal poses into flights of rapturous lyricism. Marina Svetlova's straightforward choreography was in perfect accord with Purcell's music-buoyant, charming, exquisitely simple...