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...husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie's car, nearly blows her mother to smithereens, finally has the poor girl kidnaped. After doing penance in jail, he turns up again at her dressy wedding reception in a monkey suit of real fur, beating his chest and uttering wild animal cries. Then-Well, at moments, Morgan! goes so far ape that a viewer may wince a little, but Director Karel Reisz (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) quells resistance by assigning the mad-capital antics to two gifted young British actors, David Warner (London's hottest...
...Saturday, no school and Milo was dreaming, and because he so rarely dreamed-waking or sleeping-he clung to it now, her his dream, like money smuggled into his head, chest, hips and abandoned there, sudden and perilous...
Aspirin has long been the most common cause of the 600,000 accidental poisonings each year among children who raid the medicine chest. It still is, but it now has an unexpected and fast-closing runner-up: oral contraceptives, or "the pills." At some big-city poison-control centers, the pills are being listed in about 25% of childhood poisonings, as against 33% for aspirin...
Ball Deferred. In Thailand, Humphrey inspected the ornate wats (temples) and expertly demonstrated the wai-the traditional Thai greeting that consists of a slight bow with palms pressed together at the chest. Visiting the impoverished, Red-infiltrated northeast of Thailand, Humphrey told Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman: "You have some fine country here. It looks like Minnesota." His main aim in Bangkok was to assure the Thai government that the Administration's new emphasis on social goals in Southeast Asia portended no diminution of the military effort to repel Communist aggression. The joint communique issued by Humphrey and Prime Minister...
...cavalry-and a man with a mission. Astounded by the incompetence of his superiors ("generals with no more brains or backbone than a bran doll"), he angrily determined to "put matters right." He was well equipped for it. At 48, Allenby was a huge and powerful man with a chest like the hump of Africa and a head like Gibraltar, not to mention a tongue that could flay a rhinoceros. When "the Bull" saw red, battle-hardened officers sometimes fainted dead away...