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THE NAKED PREY. Director-Star Cornel Wilde is the quarry hunted by native warriors in a stirring, single-minded African adventure drama, uncluttered with fainthearted blondes or false heroics.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 22, 1966 | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

The only survivor is Wilde. In a primitive sporting gesture, the natives free the courageous white man without clothes, weapons or water-and with ten stalwart young spearsmen poised to track him down. Hunted now, the hunter begins to run, and Prey gathers fierce momentum as a classic, single-minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man Hunt | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Professional bears, they are usually big round-lot (100 shares or more) speculators who wager that the market will drop. They borrow stock through other brokers and sell it at, say, $10 a share, hoping to replace the borrowed shares later by buying them back at a lower price, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: FIVE KINDS OF INSIDERS | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

In the "standing waves'' of fast-rising air that are found on the lee side of mountain ranges, sailplanes can soar even higher: up to 45,000 ft. Sailplanes are generally safer than powered planes-there is no risk of fire, and landing speeds are lower-but soaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Silent Wings | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

From Britain came a mighty roar. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan suggested that Acheson "has fallen into an error which has been made by quite a lot of people in the course of the last 400 years, including Philip of Spain, Louis XIV, Napoleon, the Kaiser, and Hitler." The Daily Mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Played Out? | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

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