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...moon rose over London's Albert Hall to cue in a loony howler called the Greater-Than-London Fire New Moon Carnival of Poetry. Some 2,000 shaggies and stringies in mod costume settled down for a cultural evening that began with a villanelle of squeals and grunts. The caterwauling doggerel went on, with the audience chanting a "Sound Mass"-"MUTAMA! MUTAMA! M'MUTA!"-and Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 29, whose benefit appearances in the past have included ban-the-bomb marches, standing up in Castro-style fatigues to sing Fidel's freedom song, Guantanamera. Before the moon...
Once again, all good bankers have had to come to the aid of Britain's pound. After an emergency $3 billion international loan in 1964 (still not paid back), and another $1 billion res cue in 1965, the Bank for International Settlements and eleven countries last week had to renew the billion-dollar bundle for Britain. The pound, which two weeks ago had dropped to a 15-month low of $2.78 27/32, rallied to $2.79 2/32. But in the finance ministries and central banks of Europe and North America, money managers were asking: "How long, O Lord, how long...
...Hand for the Little Lady may sound like a cue for applause, but the title actually refers to a cardsharp coup. Rigged to resemble a movie, this indoor western is really a hilarious old television show by Sidney Carroll, who has adapted his original for the large screen without obvious padding. Regrettably, though, the sneaky trick ending remains the sort of hokum that good writers have blue-penciled since O. Henry's heyday. Probably no one will object to the bottom dealing because Little Lady is handsome entertainment, mounted with leathery high spirits by a crew who would gladly...
...today," he said last March, "I see an America where our air is sweet to breathe and our rivers clean to swim in. I see an America where bicycle paths running through the hearts of our great cities provide wholesome, healthy recreation for entire families." Picking up his cue, the Interior Department now plans to build 10,000 miles of bike paths in national parks in the next decade...
...roared Lyndon Johnson when he read press reports that he had been publicly snubbed by a girl friend. To convince newsmen of their error, he asked her straight out before witnesses in his office: "Who do you love?" Courtenay Valenti, 2½, planted both feet firmly and bellowed on cue: "I love Prez...