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...Hereon movie theater, where for the past ten years the screen has often been filled with the gun smoke of U.S.-made westerns, the shooting began earlier than usual one day last week. It was midmorning. and crowds milled through the busiest shopping area of Cyprus' third-largest city (pop. 21,100). Five pistol shots rang out and, just ten yards from the Hereon's box office, a man slumped to the sidewalk, wounded in face, chest, abdomen and hand. The gunman fired a sixth shot and disappeared among the shoppers. The victim, who died a short while...
...Jacob knows how to make a bronze face human-and interesting. The impressive garnering of Epstein's portraits, on view this week at Manhattan's James Graham & Sons gallery, offers convincing proof of his unique talent (see color page). The 19 bronze casts (the largest Epstein show in the U.S. in more than two decades) glow with richness, powerful psychological insight and sense of deeply observed human beings...
...rivalry with the U.S.: "What country has the largest number of people getting a higher education? Answer: the Soviet Union. What country sent the first Sputniks into the cosmos? Answer: those were Socialist Sputniks. Who wants to overtake whom in science? Answer: the U.S. would like to overtake the Soviet Union." Then, looking down at LIFE photographer Lisa Larsen, he added: "But don't misunderstand me. There is an American girl standing in front. There may be other Americans, too. I don't want to hurt anyone's national feelings. Americans, British-all are good people...
British electrical manufacturers, who are the largest European exporters to the U.S., fired off an angry rebuttal. They said that equipment of inferior quality, either foreign or domestic, cannot slip by rigid U.S. testing standards for federal power projects. As for repairs, British manufacturers have major plants in nearby Canada...
Cinema's latest gimmick for bigger entertainment spreads itself on the world's largest indoor screen, and once again fails to prove that bigger movies make better movies. The new film process, tagged "Cinemiracle" by its sponsors, National Theaters Inc., has a field of vision (146° wide, 55° high) almost equal to that of the human eye (160°-60°) and, at the renovated Roxy Theater in Manhattan this week, got tucked in on a canvas 100 ft. long, 40 ft. high. Like Cinerama, Cinemiracle is shot through three cameras, translated through three projectors...