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...female Russian spy: From Russia with Love. They team up against seagoing megalomaniac who captures nuclear subs belonging to both East and West and plans to destroy world: shades of Diamonds Are Forever. Lots of underwater stuff: Thunderball. Also skiing: On Her Majesty 's Secret Service. (Think about: Curt Jurgens, as megalomaniac, pronounces O07's name Bund. This hint he's crypto-Nazi? Farfetched, but can anything be too farfetched in a film like this...
...larger company (1976 sales: $3.6 billion), Volvo will be the main partner, with 66% of the voting shares. Volvo's dynamic Pehr Gyllenhammar will be president, and Saab-Scania's Curt Mileikowsky will be executive vice chairman. Saabs aircraft division, which makes the Viggen jetfighter, will be part of the new company...
...issue was brought to public attention again in the Curt Flood case. Flood, a star outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, challenged the right of that team to trade him against his wishes. The Supreme Court voted 5-3 in favour of the owners, on the grounds that if the reserve clause was an anti-competitive measure, it was up to Congress to legislate the inclusion of professional baseball under the Sherman Antitrust...
...actress-director-teacher from Florida, the Massachusetts Center Repertory managed not only to raise $250,000 before the first-night curtain went up but also to gather together on its board of directors city hall politicians and Beacon Hill nabobs, to say nothing of Helen Hayes and Mrs. Curt Gowdy. Any group that can accomplish either of these feats ought to be able to survive Strindberg. Melvin Maddocks
...George Zipf. Last week, after Gray had finally managed to see Zipf twice to no avail, he rocketed off what amounted to an ultimatum, telling Zipf that he had until week's end to declare whether B & W would fight the offer. Zipfs reply was both immediate and curt. He dismissed the April 1 deadline as "totally unrealistic," and warned that the unilateral manner in which Gray had publicly announced the takeover might damage B & W's ability to do business. If so, said Zipf, "we shall hold you responsible for any such damage." But Zipf...