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...their information, are alarmed at the way much of the economy is being allowed to deteriorate. Inflation is zooming in the country; the cost of living is up 25.6% in 1964, 5.1% last month. Unchecked bureaucratic featherbedding and other government spending is expected to leave the treasury with a gargantuan $800 million debt by the end of the year, highest in Argentine history. The official peso rate is still 138 to the dollar, but only because of heavy government support; Buenos Aires black market cambios are doing a thriving business at 175 to the dollar...
...International Film Critics Award at Venice and took First Prize at the New York Film Festival. With subtitles in a score of languages the film is presently touring the world. It is a sensitive story well told, and it is one more proof that fine cinema demands neither gargantuan budgets nor stunt men. May it live to laugh at Cleopatra...
Love on a Pillow. On the wide screen in full color looms an eye approximately the size of a swimming pool. The next shot: gargantuan lips. The blonde hair is a veldt of tangled desires; the whited torso stands out like Gibraltar. Put them all together, they form Brigitte Bardot, back again in an epidermoid epic directed by her first husband Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman). For those who may have missed BB on earlier outings, Vadim-apparently reminiscing-offers the Grand Tour. He photographs her frontwards, backwards, sideways, closeup, long view, and from above, through what appears...
...column is as old-fashioned as handset type, but Angelenos who spend their days in the clatter and clutter of megalopolis find wistful appeal in a report that the town of Arcadia "has sounded taps for the last chicken farm within its limits," or that in La Puenta a "gargantuan battle raged over the bougainvillaea, the rose and the iris," candidates for the town's official flower (the hibiscus, a dark horse...
...inside pages, the newspapers' radio-TV critics did some outspoken promotion of their own. "Those interim dailies and the broadcasters made Gargantuan efforts to fill the void," wrote the News's Ben Gross, "but both were pale shadows of the real thing." Said the Journal's acerbic Jack O'Brian: "They had it all to themselves . . . and they blew it." To the Telegram's Richard Starnes. all the substitutes were "practically worthless to a hungry...