Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divine Comedy. Krogager keeps prices churchmouse cheap: a weeklong, all-expense trip to Rhodes costs $103; a 19-day Tjaereborg bus tour of eight cities, including Moscow and Berlin, costs $125. Krogager plows most earnings back into the companies, whose plant and equipment are now worth $45 million. His Sterling Airways, run for him by a onetime SAS pilot, has on order two more Caravelles and a DC-6-B. Krogager is also building an eleven-story hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol and planning another on Rhodes. The company is about to rent a computer for data...
Unfortunately for Mrs. Kathleen Busick of Milwaukee, she set something of a legal precedent as she inched her family's brand-new Chevrolet cautiously along an icy street. She braked to a stop behind a bus; Electrical Engineer Bruno R. Budner's car skidded into hers from the rear. Claiming assorted injuries as a result of the collision, Mrs. Busick sued Budner...
...bus chase that Hitchcock milks for suspense fails because the audience's attention is allowed to wander from the heroes, Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, to the previously unseen leader of an underground group. Also, the suspense menace (another pursuing bus) is not made convincingly menacing. The climactic theatre sequence where Newman and Andrews avoid the East Berlin police by creating a fire disturbance shows Hitchcock efficiently going through his paces--he has filmed variations of the same scene in four earlier pictures--but without his usual inventiveness. The final ocean-liner scene, where the fleeing physicists are found hiding...
...Andrews are neatly resolved at the halfway mark. Once Newman has his formula, Torn Curtain becomes blatant chase melodrama. There is no more characterization and the emphasis switches from Newman and Andrews to the supporting characters involved in the escape from East Berlin: the leader of the Resistance bus, a Polish ex-countess with problems, a villainous ballerina...
Died. Raymond Milliard, 58, welfare administrator who held the old-fashioned belief that the able-bodied should work for their relief checks, finding them employment as gas-station attendants, bus boys and such, an idea he practiced first as head of New York City's relief program from 1948 to 1951, and for the past .twelve years as public-aid chief in Chicago, where he also pioneered a much-admired adult learning program to make illiterates employable, a project that helped take 39,000 people off relief rolls in three years; of a heart attack; in Chicago...