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...makers from all over the world have been attracted to London by its swinging film industry, whose latest export to the U.S. is Morgan!, a hilarious piece of insanity. Charlie Chaplin is making The Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren. Francois Truffaut is just finishing Fahrenheit 451 with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Roman Polanski is making a horror satire called The Vampire Killers. Robert Aldrich is starting up a war film called The Dirty Dozen, and Sidney Lumet is working with Maximilian Schell, James Mason and Simone Signoret in The Deadly Affair. For the past...
...next do Strindberg. Gielgud, who brings his Ivanov to the U.S. in April, this time with Vivien Leigh, was seen the last two weekends in The Ages of Man on CBS television in the U.S. Julie Christie, having finished Doctor Zhivago, starts shooting François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 this week...
Sticking close to the original Wangensteen cooling method of pumping alcohol, at a temperature near zero Fahrenheit, into a stomach balloon, Dr. Hitchcock and his team treated 173 patients, 172 of whom have now been followed for 18 months (one was killed in an auto accident). They report that 50 have minimal ulcer pain remaining, and 13 have none-a satisfactory result rate of only 37%. No fewer than 71 of the patients still suffer pain, 37 more eventually had to have part of their stomachs removed, and one died from a gastric-ulcer perforation...
That is only the beginning of the snob-appeal gifts. Tiffany's fastest individual seller is a sterling-silver money clip that costs $3.50. Hammacher Schlemmer offers "Worldtemp" cuff links that register centigrade temperatures on one link and Fahrenheit on the other. Honeywell's $39.95 fishing thermometer comes with 60 ft. of line and a gauge showing which fish bite best at various water temperatures. For $99.50, Abercrombie & Fitch will gift-wrap an instrument that simultaneously tells temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, time of day and day of the week. And for the man who has every thing...
...able to agree on so far is the 60-minute hour and the earth's longitudes and latitudes. The search for standardization, which grows more vital to national industries as the world grows smaller, has been frustrated by interminable discussions about inches v. centimeters, dollars v. pounds, and Fahrenheit degrees v. Celsius. A recent meeting of 35 nations in New Delhi to study standards spent the entire session before agreeing just to standardize the metric screw -a process that will take many years...