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...Stop Lights. Near week's end, Kennedy flew into Manhattan, aged his Secret Service detail ten years by forgoing the usual motorcycle escort into the city. At one of ten midtown traffic lights that stopped the presidential limousine, an ambitious female camera bug rushed up and fired a flashbulb at Kennedy's side of the car. Moaned a New York police official: "She might well have been an assassin." As for the purpose of the President's stop-and-go entrance into New York, the official explanation was that he wanted no "fuss and feathers." It could...
...Germany's new Chancellor, one of his first decisions was to do away with the Porsche police escort that whisked Konrad Adenauer to and from the office. Then Ludwig Erhard, 66, issued orders that no government official was to be supplied with the new 20½-ft. Mercedes 600 (U.S. price: $23,000), adding that the 300 SE (around $10,000) was snappy enough. And just the other day he was seen waiting patiently in line at a Bonn pastry shop to buy two pieces of cake to take home for the afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen with his wife...
Murder at the Gallop has other notable characters and one--Robert Morly as Hector--even proves worthy escort for Miss Marple. But Margaret Rutherford is a mountain of reassurance all by herself, and in an age of Cosa Nostra it is comforting to enter at least one world in which crime can never...
...most accomplished writers, Bruce Barton Jr., who died suddenly on the weekend at the age of 41. A son of a co-founder of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, the advertising agency, Bruce graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1943, was a deck officer on a destroyer escort in the Pacific in World War II, came to TIME out of the Navy. He wrote a distinguished Education section for nine years, then moved to Foreign News, and some three years ago took over the Art section. Among his 14 cover stories were two perceptive pieces on the intellectual in America...
...recent performances in Belo Horizonte sold out the 16,000-seat America Soccer Club Stadium. Pontius Pilate wheels into field center in a white con ertible sports car with motorcycle escort. God is played by 42 girls robed in white. Throughout the spectacle, dancers writhe to twists, tangos, rock 'n' roll and American movie music...