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...Cinecitta film complex, craftsmen are putting the finishing touches on an 18-ft., 550-lb. plaster statue of a male nude who could be a cousin of Michelangelo's David. From the neck up it is David-David Niven, that is. Niven has never seen the colossus, which is intended for his aptly titled film The Statue. His features were copied from photos. But he has learned that it deviates in one significant way from the prototype. "The statue has a fig leaf," the actor notes. "And quite a large...
Died. Bertrand Russell, 97, colossus of 20th century philosophy (see THE WORLD...
...half-century ago, San Francisco looked as if it might become the great city of the West. Instead, it has remained a charming, eccentric and physically beguiling minor metropolis. Los Angeles, in the unlikely event that it ever should overcome its centrifugal forces, may yet become the Western colossus. Though it has many parts of greatness, Chicago, on the other hand, has always thought of itself as the "second city"-and so it always will be, if not third or fourth. Even without the political power that resides in a national capital-one of the usual prerequisites for civic greatness...
...Wood's wisest moves was pioneering an employee profit-sharing plan that now owns 22% of the company's stock. He retired in 1954 but remained as a director until last year, helping to oversee the company that he built into an $8 billion-a-year colossus...
Worn not at all by time or constant airing, Shakespeare doth bestride the summered continent like a colossus...