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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PARIS TO RIO. 5,741 miles; total time: 6 hr. 30 min, (plus a 1-hr. refueling stop), v. the usual 11 hr. 55 min.; fare: $1,434, v. $1,195 standard first class...
LONDON TO BAHRAIN. 3,515 miles; total time: 4 hr. 10 min., v. the regular 6 hr. 20 min.; fare: $686, v. $597 standard first class...
...postscript: Nickel returned to London by subsonic jet, taking 9½ hr. door to door, including stops in Vienna and Amsterdam. The Concorde carries 100 passengers from London to Bahrain, but only 71 the other way; takeoff temperatures, head winds and weather delays in Europe require more fuel...
This drive for cinematic purity has consumed three years of Kubrick's life and $11 million of Warner Bros.' money. The film is 3 hr., 4 min. and 4 sec. long, and it does not easily yield up its themes. "The essence of dramatic form," says Kubrick, "is to let an idea come over people without its being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it is simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves...
Brandt did, in a 2-hr. 10-min. speech. Standing under a gigantic orange and white banner bearing the current party Slogan-RESPONSIBILITY FOR GERMANY-Brandt urged Social Democrats to "stand in full solidarity behind the Chancellor and the government he leads." He smacked down the left, telling them that abstract discussions were no help: "You can't do anything with the colored balloons of philosophic formulas and quick and easy slogans." Brandt defended the party's coalition with the Free Democrats and lashed out at the opposition Christian Democrats for negativist policies. The C.D.U., he declared...