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...least the cheapie production team of Andrew and Virginia Stone (Cry Terror) keeps a hot tempo. After junking the car, the four sprint through a "dense and umbrageous forest" of Douglas fir, and the sheriff's gun changes hands at least three more times. One hood tumbles to his death from a scenic precipice; the steely moll turns to mush under Janssen's Gableish charms; the other hood, played by Actor-Comic Frank (Bells Are Ringing) Gorshin, gets his in a forest fire...
...laboratory in a cornfield outside Moscow, Lysenko gets every facility and encouragement. He goes right on trying to change nature in far-out ways by grafting pine branches on fir trees, injecting the blood of Plymouth Rock chickens into Buff Orpington hens, trying to turn wheat into rye. He complains righteously against Science Academy President Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (TIME cover, June 2, 1958) for criticizing his experiments. Says he pointedly: "I am infinitely happy that my modest work is highly prized by the party government and Nikita Khrushchev in person...
...Among those accepting: Jack Kennedy.) Amid the clamor of hammers as workmen put up the viewing stands for the Kennedy inaugural parade near the Treasury, other workmen quietly dismantled the lights and ornaments from the 70-ft. fir tree on the White House lawn-President Eisenhower's last Christmas tree as Chief Executive. And in the stores of F Street and Connecticut Avenue, salesmen reported with satisfaction that sales of top hats (at $40 and up), in conformity with Jack Kennedy's plans, had outstripped the black Homburg, an inaugural innovation that came with Dwight Eisenhower and, apparently...
...sent his skis to Bromley Mountain (Vt.) Ski Pro Neil Robinson and told him to find a way to break them. Most of the time Robinson did. Two years later, Head added a plastic top and bottom and steel edges, bonded them to the aluminum and a laminated fir core under high pressure and temperature...
...sometime archaeologist, philosopher, biochemist and author (he claims 69 books). By his own admission, he speaks 14½ languages, the 50% lingo being English. His cosmetics, says he grandly, are drawn from history, e.g., General Potemkin's letters taught him the oils used by Catherine the Great (Siberian fir needles, hay, geranium and lilac), and Anne Marie's exercises are supposedly based on a calisthenics drill devised by Leonardo da Vinci. "It is not a lesser masterpiece than his Mona Lisa...