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Gadgets Galore. The fact that James Bond has developed into the biggest masscult hero of the decade has given serious pause to such as Britain's Novelist Kingsley Amis who ranks Fleming "with those demigiants of an earlier day, Jules Verne, Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle"; and to Columbia's Jacques Barzun, who deplores "the studies by academic critics who have argued over Fleming's morals and philosophies...
...central casting, Edward Anhalt, 51, would be a natural for the chain-gang fugitive-head shaved, clothes impressed, face haggard. And indeed he lives the life of a man pursued-by nearly every studio and producer in Hollywood. If they catch him, it will cost them a minimum of $5,000 a week, for Anhalt is one of the highest-paid scriptwriters in the business (1965 estimated income: $225,000) and, as the burst of applause that greeted his Oscar award for Becket last week proved, in the judgment of his fellow craftsmen one of the best...
...Bannen, a haggard Celt who looks like Jason Robards on the morning after, plays the company clown: a come-day-go-day-God-send-payday type who always says what he thinks but seldom thinks before he says...
...Room, newsmen were wearily awaiting the outcome. Now, into that room sauntered a workman who casually set up a TV prompter. On it, in letters two inches high, was printed the news that the strike had been put off for at least 15 days. Moments later President Johnson, appearing haggard, entered the Fish Room and read these words: "Both management and the brotherhoods have tonight acted in the public interest. They responded as Americans to the request of their President, and they have done what is best for our country...
Greece's King Paul has been ailing for some time. He recovered slowly from an appendectomy last May, and an illness officially diagnosed as lumbago forced him to cancel all recent public appearances. Last week, looking haggard and pained, Paul managed to attend the swearing in of the government of new Premier George Papandreou. That over, Paul abruptly took to his bed, named his only son, Constantine, 23, Regent of Greece, and temporarily stepped down from the throne to undergo a stomach operation...