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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's unhurried newspaper, has just published the news that on March 3, 1890, Buffalo Bill met Pope Leo XIII. Seems Bill Cody was on tour with his troupe, and was standing in St. Peter's Square when the Pope passed by. The two did not speak, noted L'Osservatore; yet "the Pope observed Cody with curiosity, and when he passed before him, the great explorer bowed deeply while receiving the papal benediction." No story ran then because it was not an official audience. But now it could be told: L...
Bright Planet. After completing their crucial rendezvous (TIME, March 14) and sending the Lunar Module they call Spider off into a looping 4,300-by-l 47-mile orbit, the astronauts were left alone in space with fully 97% of their mission objectives completed. The primary reason for remaining in orbit for another five days was to test the reliability of the Apollo systems. So the astronauts settled back for one of the most relaxed periods of any manned space flight to date, taking rest periods of ten hours or more. "The big events of today," cracked a NASA official...
...longer term, the only way that the French can have the incomes that they would like and avoid devaluation is to improve the efficiency of their economy, which is fragmented into countless small businesses. Even more urgent, as the conservative newspaper L'Aurore noted last week, is the task of "restoring the confidence" of the French people in their government. Said L'Aurore: "Rarely have Frenchmen in all social categories demonstrated such dissatisfaction with the way in which the government is managing the nation's affairs." Until confidence is restored, the franc-and France-will continue...
...also a chapter in Truffaut's continuing cinematic autobiography. Antoine Doinel, once again played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, is Truffaut's self-styled persona, who got banished to reform school in The 400 Blows and was spurned by his girl friend in Love at Twenty. Now, in Kisses, he is seen leaving the army after struggling to get a psychological discharge. "You can always sell ties," shrugs his commanding officer, adding hopefully: "I hope we never meet again." His girl friend's father fixes him up with a cushy job as a hotel night clerk...
...sentiment worthy of Hamlet. In The Quick and the Dead, Thomas Wiseman has constructed a superb picture of Vienna before and during World War II, of the Baroness Leonie Koeppler and her society and of the Nazi ideology as it infects Wirthof and Lüdenscheid. He has also created a brilliant psychological study of how two very different men can become so unwittingly entwined that each fatally determines the course of the other's life...