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...Mondo Cane. In this documentary of depravity, the world has gone to the dogs and the cards are stacked against human decency, all leading to the conclusion that people are no damn good...
...past four years, the world's supply of sugar has outrun demand so consistently that sugar-beet and sugarcane growers cut back on their plantings in 1962. But Europe's winter storms damaged beet crops there, and the yield of Cuba's inefficiently handled cane crop seems certain to be some 15% less than last year. As a result, speculators gambling on the likelihood of sugar shortages later this year have been pushing up the price of sugar futures. Last week these prices reached their highest levels in 40 years. Raw sugar futures were up as much...
...Mondo Cane is Italian for "a dog's world." and this film is anything but man's best friend. The movie draws its scenes, documentary style, from every available source of contemporary bestiality and human foible, and comments on them by shocking juxtaposition. It is filmed in all-too-living color. Fast pace, sophisticated commentary and occasional hilarity mitigate its lack of taste, but most of the film is openly calculated to raise eyebrows as well as gorges. If there is a message, it is that people are no damn good. A sampling...
...young-shucked street clothes and inhibitions and donned everything from jeweled and satin costumes at $5,000 to sequined bikinis, hand towels, burlap sacks and burnooses, and went out. Thousands of bottles of liquor, from Scotch to Brazil's own cachaça, distilled from sugar cane, vanished down thousands of dance-parched throats. In the streets, in the hotels and public halls, they shimmied and shook to the 2,650 songs composed for carnival. They drifted in and out of the city's uncounted thousands of parties, drinking, dancing and making friends. What they did, they...
...most of their time in worried huddles. At one point a reporter cornered A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany in a corridor, asked him if he thought the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had a responsibility to end national strikes. Meany's face flushed with anger; his fist closed tightly around the cane that he now carries. "We have a responsibility to our membership," rumbled Meany. "And if we think it's in our interest to start a national strike, we'll start a national strike." Meany clomped away...