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...Ascot. A consultant on film fads surely recommended the modish scenes of violence, since the villains pursuing Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck from one landmark to the next seldom just take out a gun and shoot. Instead, Director Stanley Donen (Charade, Indiscreet) assigns a helicopter and a wrecking crane to tasks of mayhem, and later, in a quiet English field, three lumbering farm machines-all, of course, painted in primary hues-turn murderous...
Commenting on the CAC's influence in many City matters, Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 stated that he noticed Smith at the court hearings last Thursday on the dismissal of the past City Manager, John J. Curry '19. Crane said he was willing to let Smith go at current meeting and have him before the Council again after the court's decision...
Like the legendary crane of Chinese mythology, Tri Quang throughout his career has largely managed to shroud himself from mortal view, appearing only now and then as an exclamation point to specific events. A master of means whose ends are obscure, he is, in maddening succession, devious, enigmatic, contradictory and blandly opaque. The only thing self-evident about him is his burning desire for power, his urgent ambition not only for himself but, presumably, for his people ?the Buddhists of South Viet...
During the discussions with Rudolph, Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 read a letter from Howard Mumford Jones, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, complaining that the fading of "No Parking" signs on Francis Ave. had resulted in the continual clogging of his driveway there...
Married. Tina Louise, 32, resident voluptuary on CBS's Gilligan's Island; and Les Crane, 32, brash host on the now defunct ABC show Nightlife, who lost the ratings battle to Johnny Carson last year; she for the first time, he for the third; in Beverly Hills, Calif...