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...make El Cid in Spain, she demanded everything from a $200-a-week hairdresser to a $200,000 salary for ten weeks' work. Producer Samuel Bronston obliged. But Sophia has now filed furious suit against Bronston Productions Inc. in New York State's Supreme Court, charging a grievous breach of contract. On a 600-sq.-ft. billboard facing south over Manhattan's Times Square, Sophia Loren's name appears in illuminated letters that could be read from an incoming liner, but-Mamma mia!-that name is below Charlton Heston...
Said Stevenson: "The issue we face is, among other things, whether we intend to abandon the Charter requirement that all United Nations members must be peace-loving . . . What an invitation to aggression the Soviet proposal would be-and what a grievous blow to the good name of the United Nations...
...into an annoying cornet solo on the unbreakable spirit of Mother Russia. The horns are heard, of course, but Actor Bondarchuk's performance is far too good for them to be oppressive. His hero is a man; when fate reduces him to flotsam, it is a grievous loss, and when he finds the little boy, his relit face shows love. For the most part, Bondarchuk directs as well as he acts. Some of his visual effects are excellent, and with one in particular-a scene in which the delirium of the exhausted escapee is symbolized by the waving...
Appearing before a Senate subcommittee, Secretary of State Christian Herter conceded that the State Department had "misjudged" the situation in Japan in the weeks before the President's scheduled visit. But Herter insisted that the picture of grievous damage done to the U.S.'s prestige was "definitely overdrawn," and nobody offered any convincing rebuttal...
...tall, shambling French aristocrat was a good pilot, in Migeo's estimation, but not a great one, despite great skill and daring. Saint-Ex's grievous flaw, one that involved him in a dozen crashes and near-crashes, was his absentmindedness. He flew for release, if not escape, and once released, his thoughts did not linger on altimeter or compass. His magnificent Flight to Arras is as much a meditation as it is the log of a dangerous reconnaissance mission into German-occupied French territory. With German fighters closing in, the aviator muses for paragraphs about the country...