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...scientific genius who may or may not have been kidnaped by a top-secret U.S. security agency or by a sinister organization linked to "the international black market in brains." As proof of the brain drain, the movie offers more plot. Rock is a society psychologist and boudoir gallant who is afflicted with an obsessional neurosis against long engagements. When he is not carting diamond rings in and out of Tiffany's, he climbs into taxis, trucks and planes and travels, blindfolded, on house calls to a decaying mansion where Claudia's brother displays symptoms of severe mental...
...tantalizing Madonna Lucrezia seems proof against procreation, she is nonetheless a setup for seduction. Espoused by an insufferable clod who wants to get her with child but cannot, she falls prey to a heated young gallant (Philippe Leroy) who merely wants to get her to bed and does. The lover presses his suit with life-or-death urgency, disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes...
...Gallant Squeeze. Actually, according to one roommate, Michael L. Kadrobach, 19, "We were-and still are-absolutely certain that nothing improper took place during the night. I know Tom too well to suspect otherwise." The girl from Texas, an old friend of Carter's, had arrived in Washington and could find no other suitable place to spend the night. The other three roommates gallantly volunteered to squeeze themselves into one bedroom of the apartment so that she and Carter could share the other (which had two beds...
...jockey on half-mile outlaw tracks, Mr. Fitz hit his stride by the mid-'20s when he became head trainer at Bel air Stud Farm and the Wheatley Stable, then over the years saddled such greats as Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from arthritis) and snowy-haired, he still shuffled among his charges, softly scolding fidgeters with a light tap of his crutch and explaining to visitors, "They hear...
...primary for the Democratic nomination as comptroller and came in second. Though he lost a leg in World War II while serving as an artillery-spotter pilot, Orin is hyperactive in a multiplicity of good works, ranging from civil rights to rehabilitation of the physically handicapped, stumped seven gallant miles on crutches in the Selma-Montgomery march last spring. A former history professor and publisher of small newspapers, Lehman is now chairman of a group of radio stations...