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...Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido," New York's fiery Mayor La Guardia a man who would "bite in the clinches," the reading public a "drowsy, dangerous dinosaur." For working journalists, he boiled the Ten Commandments to two: "Do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade...
...Delhi conceded its troops had given some ground. Shipments of U.S. and British weapons have not yet reached many forward positions, but regardless of materiel, the Indian jawans are determined to hold back the invader by any means, even, said one officer, "if we have to use the knife...
Virtually all automakers have adopted Ford's Thunderbird roof line, characterized by squared-off lines, knife edges and wide rear pillars. (At Cobo Hall, Ford needled its rivals for their unabashed plagiarism with signs declaring that Ford has "the roof that tops them all.") A more subtle piracy from Ford is the copying of the Lincoln Continental's smooth slab sides by Buick. Oldsmobile and Pontiac. Chrysler, too, is expected to follow this trend next year, now that the 1961 Continental's designer, Elwood Engel, has been lured away to be Chrysler's styling chief...
...licked by a flamethrower. Exaggerating the original's single conquest, he makes love to three women. But in two notable instances, the filmmakers felt a need to tone down Author Fleming's unbuttoned imagination. In the book, the heroine is walking a beach nude with a knife-belt strapped about her when Bond first sees her. In the movie, Actress Ursula Andress fills a wet bikini as if she were going downwind behind twin spinnakers. In the book, the villainous Doctor No is buried alive inside a 20-ft. mound of bird droppings. In the movie...
...silence as leaders of the Old Dominions and the new nations of Africa and Asia challenged their onetime imperial ruler's right to decide her own future. Cried Jamaica's ebullient Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante: "The Treaty of Rome is like a surgeon's knife thrust into the body of the Commonwealth, cutting off one member from another, dividing one friend from another." One of the angriest tirades of all came from Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who warned: "We have spent 100 years resisting the magnetic pull of the United States. This will...