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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Roman Holiday (1953), all about a princess (Audrey Hepburn) on a good-will tour who slips out for a fling and finds a willing guide (Gregory Peck...
...socializing. When she is not covering political upheavals in the city, she is usually chasing down front-line action. When Viet Cong bullets began spattering around her near Danang, she took pictures first, cover second. Once the sound of a not-too-near mortar shell prompted four Marines to fling themselves over her "protectively." Says she: "They're always doing cute things like that in the field...
Return of the Seven has plenty of action, nearly all of it generated by seven men working their jaws. Their conversation takes place in a Mexican village, where Yul Brynner and half a dozen unstable gun fighters fling up the barricades and begin intensive sessions of group therapy. At least it sounds that way. According to the plot, they are supposed to be fighting off a horde of bandits to protect 300 ignorant farmers who are being herded across the desert as slave labor to rebuild the local padre's church...
...alone, 130 mining companies have been formed, mostly to mine the craze for penny dreadfuls on the frantic Vancouver Stock Exchange, where, since trading opens at 6 a.m. to be on schedule with Toronto and New York, it is not uncommon to see tuxedoed partygoers stagger in for a fling of late action...
Generally liberal in a conservative town, the Times is so widely read that when a substitute takes over a delivery route, he is simply told to fling a copy onto every porch. That way he only makes an 8% error, for 92% of St. Petersburg households take the Times...