Word: exoduses
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...Exodus (Preminger; United Artists) seems certain to become one of the most productive mints ever installed behind a marquee. Otto Preminger's much-flacked-about film version of Leon Uris' forest-felling novel-it lasted 80 weeks on the bestseller lists and moved almost 4,000,000 copies-has all the production values expected in an epic: full color, wide screen, 45,000 extras, ten name players (Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer). What's more, it got these advantages...
Happily, the public will get its money's worth. Greeted by Hollywood wise guys with vulgar hoots ("Preminger's matzo opera . . . the first Jewish western"), Exodus nevertheless turns out-despite its duration (four hours, including intermission) and an irritating tendency to Zionist tirade-to be a serious, expert, frightening and inspiring political thriller...
...current international gold crisis has made the problem increasingly critical. The disproportionate U.S. contribution to Western defense and foreign aid is a major part of the gold exodus that has lowered U.S. bullion reserves from $24 billion in 1948 to $18.5 billion today. In September, U.S. officials spoke bluntly to Bonn's visiting Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. But the real holdout appears to be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. President Eisenhower himself has private- ly written Adenauer asking for more German help. Later this month, both Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon will travel...
Kennedy and Nixon discussed the other evening the continuing exodus of an odd and unused commodity from our shores. Although neither candidate grasped the central point, expressing themselves in generalities about stabilizing our currency, and particularly reducing the national debt, their comments made clear the weakness of gold itself as the bulwark of our economy...
Born. To Hollywood Producer-Director Otto Preminger, 53, recently back from shooting a film version of Leon Uris' best-selling novel Exodus in Israel and Cyprus; and his third wife Patricia, 29, his onetime movie costume coordinator, whom he married last March: twins; in Manhattan. Names: Victoria and Mark...