Word: casablanca
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...Have Bananas. Most of the proposed customs unions lack the homogeneity of the European Six; often their members belong to different currency blocs and lack common boundaries. The members of the "Casablanca bloc" that met last week in Cairo-Egypt. Morocco, Algeria, Ghana, Guinea and Mali-found that transportation among them is so primitive that Ghana still finds it easier to import cotton from Europe than from Egypt. Hoping to change this, the Casablanca powers agreed to expand their shipping, create an airline cooperative, and start a joint payments union. But, like nearly all the little common markets, the Casablanca...
Died. Michael Curtiz (pronounced Curtease), 73, Oscar-winning (for Casablanca) Hollywood director, a leathery Hungarian import who, in a 35-year career spent largely with Warner Bros., directed 80-odd films ranging from blood and thunder (The Charge of the Light Brigade) to canned Americana (White Christmas), was famed for his malapropisms ("Make a love nest") and his gall (he cut the sermon to the birds out of Francis of Assist as "too corny"), but stubbornly insisted "I put all the art into my pictures I think the audience can stand"; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...getting so that Red Boss Ulbricht could not trust anyone, not even the "deserving workers" and "reliable" intellectuals who are given special benefits, such as vacation trips abroad. When 354 of these well-treated East Germans arrived in Casablanca on the East German cruise ship Fritz Heckert, 23 of the honored passengers and a ship's officer defected by wandering off into the city's winding alleyways. The captain flashed word of the escapes to his headquarters in Rostock, got back cabled orders: INTENSIFY IDEOLOGICAL WORK ON BOARD. But stepped-up propaganda lectures were no solution; when...
...Impatient for action and convinced that "the only solution is bullets," he flew to Morocco last October to hatch a rebel lion against the durable Dr. Salazar. Delgado-made 18 futile attempts to sneak into Portugal, finally decided he needed a passport, a readily available item in wide-open Casablanca. The Colombian, French, Italian and U.S. passports offered to him by dealers were too expensive, but somehow he got hold of a Portuguese passport. "I found it on the street," he says with a straight face. While the plotters inside Portugal postponed the uprising from...
...truly fine film, certainly, but the Telepix had it just two months ago. And, lowest blow of all, there will be no Bogart festival this reading period, so that hundreds of members of the Class of 1965 will go through their first exams in Cambridge without seeing Casablanca. Yes, freshmen, there was a Bogey, but he is dead...