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...might be expected, a comic invention of this sort is the mother of some fairly silly plot necessities. When Tony springs his FBI status on Janet, she thaws no faster than a glacier to a lighted match. But when he produces a TV prop department pistol and identity card, and shows her his clannish insigne of rank (four dots "tattooed" on his heel-"J. Edgar Hoover has seven"), Janet melts into a my-hero mood and virtually orders Tony to kiss-and-not-tell in the line of future duty. Fellow FBI-Fibster Dean gets an erotomaniacal glint...
Died. John Oliver La Gorce, 79, longtime writer (1905-59) and editor (1954-57) of the National Geographic Magazine, who reported scenery and customs from remote parts of the world where he constantly traveled, gave his name to a glacier in Alaska, a mountain peak in Antarctica, and an island off Miami; in Washington...
Built-in Disposal. Last month, landed by a bush pilot on a glacier at 7,000 ft., the four began their long push-the kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller. At 12,500 ft., they labored nine hours to hack 7-by-7-ft. platform from a 45° ice slope, wryly called it Concentration Camp, complete, as one climber noted, "with a handy garbage disposal - a 1,600-ft. drop." Ahead lay two deadly perils: a pair of giant, swelling domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies...
...canny Producer Disney has been reaping more tangible rewards. Since the opening, his dazzling, 61.2-acre carnival has taken in $48 million. Says one associate proudly: "We keep plussing things." This year's plusses: a $1,500,000 miniature Matterhorn, 146½ ft. tall, complete with bobsleds and "glacier grottoes"; eight "authentic, air-conditioned submarines" (cost: $65,000 each) to carry passengers past the lost continent of Atlantis; a graveyard of sunken ships; a miniature polar icecap; the first operable monorail system in the U.S., built at a cost of $1,300,000. The investment seems well worthwhile...
...like the movement of a glacier, the progress of the Geneva talks was all but undetectable to the naked eye. If, after Herter, Couve and Lloyd returned from John Foster Dulles' funeral, the conference continued at the same profitless pace, the idea just might occur to everyone that little more could be achieved by talking to the head man himself...