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...space age, it traces a handful of Axis rocket engineers from Peenemünde, where they "romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married to Khrushchev's top rocket man. And there is Dr. Kanashima, a Japanese physicist who happened to be at Peenem...
Director Michael Murray achieves the difficult and peculiar French balance between comedy and intellectuality. His direction prevents side-spiting distractions from Giruadoux's pointed satire, and, partly through effective cutting of several long speeches, maintains lightness of faint. He touches, but doesn't overwhelm, the last act with shades of the pathetic and the ridiculous. The resuits are sublime...
...last three Presidents of the U.S. have given the helicopter industry its biggest boost by frequently and publicly taxiing from place to place in their whirlybirds. Having been aviation's ugly duckling for 20 struggling years, the industry finally saw some faint hope that it would win the wide public acceptance it wants. The number of helicopters in commercial use - for everything from patrolling game reserves to lifting men to offshore oil rigs - has risen from 936 in 1960 to 1,767 in 1964. The nation's three major helicopter lines, serving New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
Then I became aware of a faint pulsing rhythm...
...sense for compromise." But German church leaders, though embarrassed by Niemöller's political views, have never moved to depose him because of his international prestige. At 73, he has retired from all his offices in the Evangelical Church; his fellow clerics hold some faint hope that eventually he will stop firing torpedoes without upping periscope...