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...film's faults, along with its Asiatic strangeness and its painful subject, will surely scare away most U.S. moviegoers. Director Kurosawa is in such raging and relentless earnest that he labors almost every point he makes. And the film maintains its intensity at much greater length (2 hr. 20 min.) than the average spectator can be expected to tolerate. Furthermore, Actor Shimura, though at moments transcendently right and revealing, rather too continuously resembles a Japanese Jiggs who has just been beaned by the eternal rolling pin and is about to say tweet-tweet. But the minor actors are often...
...bathyscaph Trieste reached its goal last week: the bottom of the Marianas Trench, which is believed to be the deepest place in all the world's oceans. Manned by Jacques Piccard, son of the bathyscaph's inventor, Auguste Piccard, and Lieut. Don Walsh, the Trieste took 4 hr. 48 min. to settle slowly down to the Pacific Ocean's bottom, landing gently on soft silt that billowed up and looked like dust clouds when the lights were turned on. When the clouds cleared, Piccard and Walsh could see living creatures that moved unbothered by the pressure...
...unrolled in war and peace. Before the admiring gaze of 1,378 Supreme Soviet delegates, of his wife (seated alone on a chair placed in an aisle), and of galleries packed with diplomats and newsmen, Premier Nikita Khrushchev again claimed his day in history. In a 3½-hr. State of the Union address aimed more at the world than his own 212 million subjects (copies of the speech in English were handed out, an unprecedented thing, as he spoke), Khrushchev proclaimed that the Soviet Union intended to reduce its standing armed forces by a third in the next year...
...yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two recent record long-distance hops. To a bug-eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew...
...began hitting the road. Among them: a walker who drank 16 pt. of milk en route; a 14-year-old schoolboy; two bowler-hatted, brief-cased, brolly-toting civil servants from Bath. By week's end an R.A.F. technician had got the time down to less than 28 hr. A Russian-born doctor, Barbara Moore, 56, also claimed to have made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle. Since no one paced her, her time...