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...Belgium. "As a Catholic and a gentleman, I wouldn't argue with them," said TV's top impresario. "They ran the show." The fee? "No money," said the Mother Prioress, "but we have a mission in the Congo. Would it be possible to send a heavy-duty Jeep with rain curtains?" Ed is out shopping for the most waterproof Willys he can find...
...Finger-Fono system plays scriptural extracts on a lightweight plastic player whose turntable is spun by a finger-powered lever. But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries...
...avoid the worst, Etiemble is preparing a dictionary (Parlez-Vous Franglais?) of French equivalents for Anglicisms. Even where there is none whatever (for Jeep, say), he will insist on French spelling (Jipe). Guillermou is devising a linguistic decompression chamber: a new French glossary with three sections-white pages for acceptable words, red for inadmissible ones, and green pages that "will be a sort of Ellis Island of the French vocabulary. After suitable nationalization, the words may move into the white pages...
...less amusing) than On the Beach. Filmed in 70 mm. Ultra Panavision and the new seamless, single-lens Cinerama, Kramer's epic can rightly be called a blockbuster-the blocks busted or severely strained during its marathon frenzy include those of three Plymouths, four Fords, two Dodges, one Jeep, a Chrysler Imperial and a Chevrolet...
...being filmed on a small peninsula about eight miles by water from Puerto Vallarta. Daily at noon, Taylor arrives by launch, often dressed in a pink bikini, bringing a picnic lunch for Richard from the kitchen of their four-story villa. Ashore, she and Richard go around in a Jeep with a red and white striped canvas top. Burton is the company champion at flinging frisbees. He has learned Spanish, using records and written grammar. He is working well, too. With Williams and Huston behind him, it is conceivable that this movie could win him an Academy Award...