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JOHNSON'S WAX. In the copper-colored bowl suspended over a limpid pool, 500 people at a clip see the 17½-min. movie, To Be Alive! Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid traversed three continents to produce it, and the triple-screen montage is fast, fresh...
Nothing but the Best. Under the opening credits come the enchorial strains of God Save the Queen. The camera, floating through a limbo of pound-foolish British affluence, ogles a jeweled clip, a limousine, a blonde, a bottle of expensive brandy. Close behind, and sniffing, comes Alan Bates, steaming with parvenu dreams about an A-type lady and an E-type Jag. "It's a filthy, stinking world," Bates muses, "but there are some smashing things in it." By the time this cheeky, stylish, mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top is over, most of the smashing things...
...cops aimed to show that Neal had worn the hoods that were discarded near both holdups. Their method was to match hairs on the hoods with hairs on Neal's head. Armed with a court order from Common Pleas Judge Edward Griffith, the police were about to clip Neal's tresses when his lawyer, Milton S. Leidner, foiled them with a restraining order obtained in another court. The Constitution "intends that no man be forced to incriminate himself," says Leidner. When Judge Griffith overruled him, Leidner made a deal. Borrowing the judge's scissors, he snipped seven...
Sometimes a piercee is a girl who just never liked non-pierced earrings. The clip earrings always hurt her ears, and the screw ones either slid sideways or fell off during the evening. Pierced ears seemed a good way to remedy such problems, because the piercee cannot feel the earrings she is wearing. Of course, pierced earrings are not completely loss-proof. One 'Cliffie wore her earrings to sleep, and woke up the next morning to find one gone. She looked under the pllow and searched the sheets, but with no luck, and so considered the earring lost. When...
...proposal had seemed innocent enough: simply to build some passes under or over Memorial Drive, on the Cambridge side of the Charles River so that traffic could move along at the same quick clip as on the well-under passed Storrow Drive on the Boston side. In 1962, State Senator Francis X. McCann got a bill through the legislature ordering the Metropolitan District Commission to build the needed underpasses and overpasses...