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...fact, time proved them right, but Director Andrew McLaglen (son of Victor) uses the bare bones of history mostly to flavor his yarn. Even human mating instincts operate almost exclusively in relation to the bull. One eager beefer corners Maureen behind a candlelit table for two, panting, "Run out on me now, and your bull will wind up on that table tomorrow night...
...19th century cartoon. The top two photographs on the left were taken by Mike Smith, who, fortunately, hadn't quite made it to the subway when the lights went out. He walked across Manhattan to the Hudson Tube station and along the way shot the candlelit lobby of the Sheraton-Atlantic Hotel and-one of the char acteristic scenes of the evening-a girl in the Tube station making a telephone call by candlelight...
...slum areas, Sukarno laced Djakarta's avenues with flags and festive arches, assigned each of the 35 Afro-Asian emissaries-from Chou En-lai to Imperial Princess Ashraf of Iran-his own personal motorcade, complete with screaming sirens. Best of all was the state banquet, held in the candlelit Bali Room of the Hotel Indonesia. There, while Javanese maidens crooned native melodies, Sukarno fed his guests three French wines and six full courses-including sto Bandung (a rice stew) and a flaming ice cream dish titled bombe glacée Afro-Asia...
Small as the assemblage was, the candlelit room was smaller yet, and some of the guests wound up forced to sip their cocktails in the ladies' room. But nobody seemed to mind, for the conversation was lively, the filet mignon was good, and the guest of honor was unusually convivial. The occasion was a testimonial dinner in Manhattan last week for terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler...
...That depends, to a considerable extent, on the prime movers of private business, whose massive corporations have been called "the dominant nongovernmental institutions of American life." The men at the top judge the state of the economy with a mixture of facts and instinct. Whenever they meet -whether over candlelit dining tables in the White House or in clubs from San Francisco's Pacific Union to Manhattan's Links-they are constantly poking and prodding the U.S. body economic and creating the delicate consensus known as business mood. What is their mood...