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...transmissions, Tokyo duplicated the Eiffel Tower, only 40 ft. higher. Other antennas have risen in Cairo and Teheran. But the erection of TV towers has reached epidemic proportions only in Europe, where local papers breathlessly report every increase in height, meter by meter, as the towers rise...
Since its erection for the 1889 Paris World's Fair, Engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel's spidery 984-ft. iron tower has attracted more attention seekers than anything in France except the bikini...
Despondents in ever-increasing numbers have also turned to the Eiffel Tower as just about the most dramatic jumping-off place in France. With the tower's suicide rate approaching one a month, the Paris press last year campaigned for anti-suicide barriers around the "cursed monument." The Eiffel Tower Society, which oversees the structure, obliged by building a 51-ft.-high steel-wire fence around the edge of each of the tower's three platforms...
...avail. Within one 24-hour period last month, two persons scaled the barrier and plunged to their deaths. Last week a young Vietnamese man became the tower's 349th suicide. Buffeted by more angry headlines, the Eiffel society announced that they would heighten the barrier to ten feet. Would that stop would-be suicides? Shrugged the official in charge of tower safety: "There is only one solution: dismantle the Eiffel Tower piece by piece. Then suicide candidates would have to throw themselves into the Seine...
...audience (aside from falling asleep) is identifying the innumerable faces that appear in cameo roles throughout the film, but perhaps most sterling of these is Anthony Perkins as an American soldier (no kidding). Poor Mr. Perkins dreamed of seeing Paris (he nearly has an orgasm when he sights the Eiffel Tower) and just as his eyes water in the Left Bank red-checkered table cloth bistro--right, a sniper. In fact, the only believable role is that of Adolf Hitler, simply because one is prepared to believe anything about...