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...celebration not only of children's dreams but also of the movies that help fuel those dreams. Of course, it is one of those movies. Spielberg has done what he set out to do: at the end of Close Encounters, the audience is sitting with him in the lap of the universe, ready and waiting for new magic to fall into their lives. ? Frank Rich
...woman out of the building, presumably for an afternoon airing. The bewildered lady was found sitting in her wheelchair, abandoned at a street corner, some time later. Her ostensibly helpful visitors had vanished-and so too had the electric typewriter they had apparently hidden under a blanket on her lap. At least the getaway driver and wheels were found...
...Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, 47, likes to rev up engines and tinker with antique cars. Even now he is busy restoring one of the three venerable Lancias that he keeps on his sheep ranch in Victoria. His latest plan was to drive a 1933 Alfa Romeo in a four-lap vintage-car exhibition at Melbourne's Sandown Park-but at the last moment he changed his mind. Instead, togged out in a powder blue racing suit and goggles last week, he climbed beside three-time World Champion Jack Brabham. As the Alfa touched speeds of 100 m.p.h., the announcer...
Malibu Grand Prix is the name of the game, and it is not tame-though it may be less hazardous than roller-coaster riding. No mini-Mario has been killed or seriously injured in the 6 million Malibu laps to date (though one nervous driver sprained a finger on the steering wheel, and several speeders have crashed through a fence). After buying tickets ($1.25 a lap) and getting instructions on safety regulations and the operation of the car, drivers buckle into Bell helmets and safety belts to await the red, amber and green signal light at the starting line. There...
...prizes. Inevitably, in Southern California, the sport attracts non-track stars, notably James Garner, Connie Stevens, Flip Wilson (he didn't flip), David Cassidy and sundry rockers, who to date have won no prizes. Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler went off the track on his first lap. But the best customers, the Malibu managers maintain, are the nonfamous people like the 42-year-old woman who set a track record-Alltime Slowest-on her first time out. She did the first 800-meter lap in 212 sec.-equivalent to 6½ m.p.h.-thereby qualifying for the Guinness Book of World...