Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GRAND PRIX. With the help of Cinerama, Metrocolor and Super Panavision, Director John Frankenheimer has captured most of the excitement-and all of the noise-of last year's nine-race Grand Prix competition for Formula One racing cars. Top billing goes to Yves Montand, James Garner, Eva Marie Saint and Franchise Hardy, but the true stars are the cars, performing in some of the most spectacular sequences ever filmed of metal in motion...
Calling that task West Germany's "grand design," Kiesinger asked the East to forgive Germany for the past and to accept its approach, "despite all existing differences in opinion, as what it is and wants to be: a wide policy of peace and understanding whose objective is the happy future of all Europe...
Hotel is a $4,500,000 renovation of Grand Hotel. The 1932 movie, based on a novel by Vicki Baum, was a gaudy old fleabag with a startling number of star boarders: Greta Garbo, the Barrymore brothers, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt. The new movie, based on a 1965 bestseller by Arthur Hailey that was little more than bum Baum, transposes the premises from Berlin to New Orleans but still provides the customers with a generous supply of clean towels and dirty people...
...World Cup. That was before Nancy Greene spotted Annie almost a full second in the first run of the special slalom at Oberstaufen, Germany, two weeks ago, only to beat her by 2 sec. on the second trip down the course-and go on to complete a grand slam by winning the giant slalom next day. It was also before she beat Annie and Marielle in the giant slalom at Grindelwald in Switzerland last week, then flashed to a 1½-sec. victory in the Grindelwald downhill, on a tough, 2,400-yd. course...
...crone. Her memoirs and a dozen biographies contain such a hodgepodge of legend that it is often hard to decide whether Bernhardt was truly a gifted actress or merely a canny show-woman. In this effervescent biography, Cornelia Otis Skinner, herself an actress and writer (Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals), expertly sorts out the conflicting mass of material. Her conclusion is that Bernhardt was both a genius and a lovable loony...