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...state colleges, which are also state-supported but owe no allegiance to Cal. State colleges used to concentrate on teacher training, but California's exploding technology has given them a whole new direction-vocational training on an enormous scale. They now teach, besides teaching itself, everything from judo and fly-tying to aeronautics, electronics, semantics, penology and oenology (wine growing...
...funny enough when things finally begin to move. But before things do, Sinatra and his chums spend more time than is really necessary punching each other kiddingly, talking tough to dolls, practicing judo chops on waiters and in general playing themselves. The action, when it comes, is fast and foolish enough to make this one of the more entertaining films of a not-too-entertaining summer. The ending is clever, and what precedes it has a little of everything, including a little wit. There are square jokes for squares (Red Skelton, playing himself, is unable to cash a check...
...Force lieutenant who won the D.F.C. in Korea, and later became a crack pilot with Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport, Pope worked himself back into top shape teaching his Indonesian guards judo, and read enough law books in prison to help conduct his own defense (he thought he was fighting international Communism, he said). But U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones publicly regretted that an American "paid soldier of fortune" had become involved in the fighting (a witness quoted Pope as saying the rebels paid him $10.000 a month for his work...
...have been wearing $33 Japanese contact lenses for over two years in my daily judo practices without any discomfort or dislodgment...
MURDER IN BLACK LETTER, by Poul Anderson (182 pp.; Macmillan; $3.50) presents an amateur sleuth who is a professor of Renaissance literature, a judo expert, and a nervous wreck. Black depression over the death years before of his sister overtakes him at odd moments, and, as one character says in admiration, "every couple of years Kintyre spends a few days in hell." But when a young graduate student is tortured and killed just before publishing a thesis on witches in 14th century Italy, Kintyre shakes his gloom and sniffs after the killers. Author Anderson creates a spooky San Francisco cityscape...