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...dollar-starved Bolivia, the free rate of exchange has slid to 6,800 bolivianos to the dollar, and local price inflation, though high, has not kept up. Result: anyone paid in dollars can buy beef filets for 11? a lb., rice for 2? a lb., gasoline for 5? a gal., cooking oil 4? a qt. A maid's salary runs from $1.50 to $2.50 a month; an average taxi ride costs 5? -no tip expected...
Take Your Time with Me, Lover (Joyce Bradley; Mercury). A voice of sanity in a live-for-tonight era. The gal pleading for a slower pace may be a dull date, but she's the kind to make the right guy happy...
Even straight-faced Bogart must have realized that Dead Reckoning was not a "gun-gutter-gal" thriller. Although Bogart is periodically covered by guns, blood, and Elizabeth Scott, it is impossible to take the movie seriously. This is not a flaw, since Dead Reckoning is a great if unintentional comedy. Most of the humor comes from double meanings and the ensuing snickers from the audience. The snickers become howls when Bogart gives his deadpan comments on ludicrous situations. (After an all-encompassing embrace with Lizabeth Scott he notes, "I hate every inch of her." And he should know...
...billion program financed either by increased user taxes or by a combination of taxes and tolls. Congressmen and truckers who stalled the pay-as-you-go formula this year are now reported ready to back a program financed entirely by increased user taxes, including boosts of 2? a gal. on gasoline, 2? a Ib. on tires, tubes and retreading materials, plus higher excise taxes on trucks and trailers...
Born. To Jan Sterling (real name: Jane Sterling Adriance), 32, tough-gal-typed blonde cinemactress (Women's Prison), and Paul Douglas, 48, cinemactor (Green Fire): their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Adams. Weight...