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...began with an accident. Some time in 1968, somewhere in the northwest Pacific, the Soviet submarine surfaced to recharge its batteries. There was an explosion, perhaps caused by a spark that ignited trapped gases in the hull Before a single member of the crew could escape, the craft plummeted to the ocean floor about three miles below. But not to an unknown grave. U.S. Navy devices picked up the stricken submarine's last throes and were able to place the wreckage within a ten-mile-square area. The Soviet navy was not so fortunate. A Soviet task force searched...
...tiny craft had been in space for 16 months and was nearly out of steering fuel. Yet flight controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week managed to keep Mariner 10 alive and performing well through its third -and closest-encounter with the solar system's innermost planet. As it passed only 200 miles above Mercury's scorched surface, the half-ton robot swooped over the planet's north polar region, sent back some 300 closeup pictures and confirmed a puzzling fact-that Mercury has an innate magnetic field
...Four Musketeers. The first part of this was fun, but this extension is a serious rip-off. Richard Lester knows his craft as a director; certainly this is a beautiful movie visually and it is fast. But too fast and skimpy. They filmed the whole of this to be released as one picture, but somebody decided they could milk us for two. Sneak in the back and have a nice time, but the self-respecting ought not give those bastards the satisfaction of paying $2.50 for excess footage...
...arrayed in neat rows that seem to curve off to the horizon; others swarm and cluster like a plague of monstrous locusts. Spread over 2,500 acres is an air armada that seems big enough to start World War III or, judging by the vintage of some of the craft, to replay World War II or any lesser conflict of the intervening years. Phalanxes of helicopters, their windows painted over, large numbers on their blunt noses, bear an eerie resemblance to massed football linemen. The air base is not some secret, Seven Days in May outpost, but the Pentagon...
...junior, combines the odd satisfaction of caring for a living legend with the freedom of being a successful traveling photographer. Others close to the old man are a protégé, who is also a White House aide; a male secretary and talented ghostwriter reminiscent of Robert Craft, Igor Stravinsky's invaluable chronicler; and a young bearded man, who is either Lumen's grandson or his natural son. In friskier days, Humanitarian Sam forced himself on his daughter-in-law, and the issue is in doubt...