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...MURDER YOUR WIFE. The mayhem in this nimble comedy about a man who gets drunk and marries without malice aforethought is plotted by Jack Lemmon, whose fracturingly funny performance is smoothly supported by Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi, an import who makes hard-sell sex seem as classy as caviar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 5, 1965 | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that will probably establish a long-term policy of lend-Lisi. She is devastating to behold as a centerpiece, though she somehow makes hard-sell sex seem at least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Homicidal Bash | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...improvement was costly: it was due in part to a controversial 15% import tax that has angered Britain's trading partners and seriously threatened the future of the European Free Trade Association, the seven-nation, non-Common Market trading group that Britain dominates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Britain Makes Trouble for EFTA | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

ICOMI laid a 122-mile railroad through the jungle, dredged a stretch of the Amazon so that it could handle ocean-going ships, built docks and roads. The World Bank helped out with a $35 million loan; the Export-Import Bank provided $67.5 million. Major construction was finished in 36 months instead of the projected 48 months, and the first big shipments began moving down the river and out to sea in 1957, enabling ICOMI to cash in on the unusually high manganese prices caused by the Suez crisis. Since then, ICOMI has shipped 5,900,000 tons, grossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Suburbia in the Jungle | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Other principals are ex-Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes (now a General Motors vice president); the estate of ex-Defense Secretary Charles Wilson; and two ChineseAmerican businessmen, C. Y. Chen and C. T. Shen, who made a fortune in export-import and shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: Negotiations with Niarchos | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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