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Among the holdings of the late actor-director Gregory Rattoff were the movie rights to a little spy novel entitled Casino Royale, which Rattoff's heirs transferred to producer Charles K. (What's New, Pussycat?) Feldmann, who in turn gave it the full treatment: half a dozen directors, an equivalent number of writers, one of the most star-studded casts in years, and a budget that would make many a small nation choke in envy...
...might expect a movie with so many creators to suffer from a certain unevenness of style. Not so. Casino Royale is guided through its 131 minutes by the same matchless bad taste. My own suspicion is that the budget, huge as it must have been, somehow ran out before Feldmann had thought to hire a screenwriter. Or maybe he split up what he had three ways, on the theory that invention is additive...
...when Britain's Eden and France's Mollet put out feelers for a face-saving Washington summit conference, the White House was pointedly not listening. And when Swiss President Markus Feldmann proposed at week's end that the Big Four get together (with India's Nehru) in Switzerland, the President politely replied that the U.S. was conducting its crisis diplomacy through the U.N., and "I believe that the interests of all will be best served by carrying these initiatives to a successful conclusion...