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Drained by Debate. Tory backbenchers peppered the Prime Minister's speech with caustic cries of "Hear, hear!", hoots of laughter and shouts of "Resign, resign!" Distrustful financial analysts doubted that spending had been reduced enough to stiffen the pound, and Laborites were bitterly resentful of the domestic curbs. For all the pained outcries, however, only one Cabinet member resigned-Lord Longford, leader of the House of Lords. The rest of the Cabinet, including some who had been expected to leave, stayed on with the justification that no single Cabinet department had been singled out to bear the brunt...
...Super Pro," which is offering 250 Mustangs to the first 250 who can fill five blank spaces with the pictures of professional football stars, produced on TV in person the hardest of all the stars to find, Detroit Lions' Wayne Walker. The gag brought nothing but hollow laughter from the thousands of Super Pro players still lacking the Walker stamp...
...press conference, one reporter asked him whether he considered resistance to authority a "healthy" thing. Ferber's friends erupted in laughter, knowing that that's not the kind of question he usually answers in two minutes. Later he elaborated...
...Walrus the merrieness has gone out of the Beatles' laughter. Sure, we still laugh with the joker at the choking smokers, chuckle at the English garden, and smile knowingly at the pretty (a favorite put-down is to pretend they're fags) policemen...
...photography to help create the swinging London mood of Blow-Up. Italy's Gillo Pontecorvo faithfully reproduced the grainy style of newsreel footage to restage The Battle of Algiers-a pictorially harrowing exposition of war as an extension of politics. Czech Director Jiff Menzel leaped from tears to laughter in quick sequence to create the moody turmoil of Closely Watched Trains. The "undoable" film can now be done, as shown by the creditable and convincing movie versions of Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Even Proust is possible-if anyone wants...