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...this revved-up and spun-out (three hours) ode to autos. Sixteen camera teams shot 1,000,000 feet of film, much of it at last year's Grand Prix races, and Director John Frankenheimer has fashioned a heart-stopping movie slowed down only by the romantic detour of the drivers (James Garner, Yves Montand) and their camp followers (Eva Marie Saint, Francoise Hardy...
...Detour. At length, after scores of interviews with witnesses who claimed that they knew something, and with various officials who denied that they knew anything, Goerner fashioned his plot. When Earhart left Lae, he writes, she did not fly directly toward Rowland Island. Instead, acting on the request of a highly placed U.S. official (Goerner hints that it must have been F.D.R.), she headed north toward Truk in the central Carolines to reconnoiter Japanese airfields and fleet-servicing facilities in the area. To make this detour possible without arousing suspicion-after all, the whole world knew the flyers' itinerary...
...before "the winds of change." No black African nation recognizes the Verwoerd regime, and their diplomatic barriers have forced South African Airways to detour 1,000 miles around the western hump of the continent on its European flights. An international seminar on apartheid opens this week in Brazil, with 30 nations participating...
During the construction period, motorists will use two temporary roads to navigate the distance between the Cambridge Fire station and the Littauer Center of Public Administration. One of the detour roads will cut across Memorial Hall's triangular plot and then sweep behind Littauer Center, coming within 15 or 20 ft. of the center's back stairs This road, carrying east to west traffic then curves in front of Gannett House and connects with Mass Ave. The other road, with west to east traffic, comes up from Harvard Square and veers sharply towards Mem Hall and then connects with Broadway...
...ailment, has already announced that he may not run again in 1968. Senator Spessard Holland, now 73, may also decide to step down when his present term expires in January 1971. Though little more than a mile separates the Commerce Department from Capitol Hill, in Collins' case a detour back to Florida might prove the shorter route between...