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Except for this affirmation that the Soviet Union would go on spending for arms (at least a quarter of its total income this year), the order of the day was peace and friendship. Giant, red corn stalks and eight-foot ears of corn festooned one square, and the moon was gaily displayed as the latest Soviet plaything. Holiday marketers crowded the shops. Restaurants were jammed. And at the Kremlin reception, there was dancing for the first Nov. 7 since Lenin and Trotsky took over the place in 1917. After leading the grand march into Vladimir Hall, Premier Khrushchev begged...
...Duty. In Evansville, Ind., a thief stole an eight-foot painting of Christ from the Camp Reveal chapel, carried it out past a neon sign flashing, "He watches you every minute...
...caravan of eight vehicles circled to a stop in the morning fog that lay on the floor of the open-pit Minnesota iron mine. With swift precision, the coveralled men of the launching crew lowered an eight-foot metal capsule-an elongated vacuum bottle-to the crater floor and attached to it a gigantic (280 ft. high), pear-shaped polyethylene balloon. Within the capsule, a balding Air Force space surgeon named Dave Simons stirred impatiently in his tight little world...
...Soft! What Truck ... In Madison, Wis., arrested for leaving the scene of an accident after his truck tore off a 3½-ton marquee and smashed an eight-foot window at the Cardinal Hotel, Henry D. Eskridge alibied: "Honest to gosh, I didn't know I hit anything...
...result of all these stupendous efforts? Something roughly comparable to an eight-foot chorus girl-pretty well put together, but much too big and much too flashy. And sometimes DeMille is worse than merely flashy. It is difficult to find another instance in which so large a golden calf has been set up without objection from religious leaders. With insuperable piety, Cinemogul DeMille claims that he has tried "to translate the Bible back to its original form." the form in which it was lived. Yet what he has really done is to throw sex and sand into the movie goer...