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Whether noisy or quiet, at least one thing differentiated the speakers this year. Where they once used to stride along roads (long), sail oceans (uncharted), or climb mountains (lofty), they are now in orbit (dizzying). Said Emmett Dedmon, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, at George Williams College: "May the explosions of your generation cut as clean as those which freed the capsule of Gemini IV from the booster engines." Whatever his fellow editors might think of that particular metaphor, Dedmon stated the dominant theme of the 1965 commmencement speeches: the "explosions" of the younger generation...
...Bond continues his adventures on the movie screen, the budgets of the films steadily climb. The producers were hesitant about investing in Dr. No, but the success of From Russia with Love tempted them to pour millions into the special effects of Goldfinger and even more into the forthcoming Thunderball. The elaborate settings are half the fun of James Bond pictures, and J suspect that their mounting ventures will, like Bond's own, surely...
...Vientiane where Kong Le maintains his 8,000-man neutralist army. When Kong Le moved in last year, after being pushed off the Plain of Jars by the Pathet Lao, Vang Vieng was a jumble of wrecked trucks, shattered huts and rusty barbed wire. Now tidy, white-washed barracks climb the hills around Vang Vieng's 4,500-ft. airstrip (recently resurfaced by U.S. aid), and a small sawmill snarls busily, cutting planks for a new school, shops and houses for 2,000 Meo refugees who fled when their villages were occupied by the Pathet...
...YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE. Rex Harrison and Jeanne Moreau, Alain Delon and Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif and Ingrid Bergman, pair up and climb in and out of a 1930-model Phantom II, lending elegance and star power to an episodic movie about roadside amour...
...certainly not that we don't like spring riots," Dean Williston said, 'but we're especially concerned about the safety of the boys. Nobody wants a dead body because girls have egged the boys on to climb up the dormitory walls," she added...