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...expects the best cuts of meat defatted, deboned, rolled and tied up. She buys her potatoes dried, flaked, precooked, double-baked in foil shells, French fried, hash browned or au gratin. Vegetables must be fresh, in or out of season, or frozen in boilable plastic pouches with butter, cream or hollandaise sauce. If the modern American housewife expects groceries to cost what her grandmother paid, she should be willing to shop, cook and eat like her grandmother...
...devices are not 100% foolproof. Enemy troops often foil the people sniffers by hanging buckets of urine in the trees. Even the "wild weasels," which were designed to counteract Soviet-built SAMs, occasionally run amuck. During the Haiphong raid, an anti-radar missile that was intended to strike a Communist antenna accidentally homed in on the guided missile frigate Warden. The ship was so heavily damaged that it had to be towed to the Philippines for repairs...
U.S.A.F., 36, who will accompany Young to the surface of the moon, makes an ideal foil for his more taciturn skipper. Born and reared in the Carolinas, the easygoing space rookie still speaks in a casual drawl. He has also managed to achieve a space first of sorts. He asked for-and got -grits (dehydrated) on his breakfast menu for this month's moon trip. But Duke's playfulness is deceptive. He was class valedictorian in prep school (Admiral Farragut Academy, St. Petersburg, Fla.), graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy and later earned a master...
Died. Marilyn Maxwell, 49, statuesque blonde film fixture of the '40s and early '50s; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. After breaking into show business as a big-band singer, Maxwell found her forte as a straight-faced foil to movie comedians. Frequently cast as a slit-skirt and sweater type, she outlasted many of her Hollywood competitors and managed the transition to television with relative ease. She made many guest appearances on comedy and variety shows, got a regular role in the 1961 Bus Stop series, then successfully returned to cabaret singing...
JAMES CAAN plays the terrible-tempered eldest brother Sonny in a performance of great force, the perfect foil to Pacino's calculating and withdrawn Michael. Sonny is a character who falls victim to his own passion. The actor playing him could have met the same fate. Caan, however, knows how to make a character broad and boisterous without being overemphatic...