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...week, after they had allowed Apollo to drift about 100 miles ahead of the Saturn 4B, the astronauts fired the service module's powerful propulsion engine twice in orbital maneuvers that once more brought them to a rendezvous with the spent second-stage rocket. This operation, too, had implications for the lunar mission; if the LM should become stranded in lunar orbit on the way to or from the Apollo command moduel, the larger craft would have to seek it out and dock with it to rescue the two astonauts aboard...
...Salazar, the victim of a massive stroke, clung to life. But the 79-year-old dictator had been in a coma for ten days, and his doctors had informed President Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomás that he would never recover sufficiently to resume office. Faced with a serious drift in government affairs and rumors that the military might step in, Tomás finally called on Caetano to form a government...
...subject matter, highly conducive both to boredom and pretension, is the plight of a 36-year-old virgin (at least the ads say she's 36), played by Joanne Woodward. He works in a straight stream-of-consciousness style, using quick flashbacks intended to depict in reasonable measure the drift of his main character's mind. Sometimes these are a little irritating, but rarely more than that, and sometimes they're downright effective. Newman's use of camera is, in contrast to the fancy editing, routinely tasteful. The result is an intelligent and mildly absorbing movie of a sort...
Manhattan ladies have been all atwitter about the Yves St. Laurent peekaboo dress that was such a stopper in the Paris fall fashion shows. Last week they saw it in the flesh at Alexander's couture-copy show. Out came the model, preening prettily in a floor-length drift of sheer black chiffon, with only a ruff of ostrich feathers around the hip to save it from moving out of the controversial category into the condemned. For customers who want the concoction, Alexander's was ready to supply a cop-out-a body stocking that would make...
...SEVENTH CONTINENT. Director Dusan Vukotic tells a sometimes ingenuous but often ingenious fairy story of two children who drift off to a magical, adult-free paradise...