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...When news from the outside world seemed to be of mayhem in the universities, we decided to do something other than riot," says Lauri Noreila, president of the student union at Helsinki's School of Economics. What he and his fellows did was organize a floating exhibition of Finnish products on a 10,000-ton ferry, then anchor it last fall beneath London's Tower Bridge. More than 100 firms participated in the "Finn-focus" exhibit, which produced $5,000,000 in export orders...
David Niven and Orson Welles, Ursula Andress and Deborah Kerr, William Holden and George Raft, John Huston, Charles Boyer, Joana Pettet, Daliah Lauri, and in furtive appearances, Peter O'Toole and Jean Paul Belmondo, round out Casino Royale's company. Niven takes everything very very seriously, and has made of Sir James a proud, sensitive, prudish, retired spy in anything but the Ian Fleming tradition. He stutters too, at the start, but as if realizing it's not funny, Niven gives up this device a third of the way into the picture. Orson Welles, given one of the most thankless...
...when his game went awry that he would haul out a pocketknife and stab himself repeatedly in his wooden leg. George Fox, another champion, committed suicide after he miscued what would have been his winning ball in the 1865 U.S. championship. Years later, when he lost the championship, Onofrio Lauri rushed out of a Chicago poolroom, cue in hand, and almost threw himself into Lake Michigan before friends caught...
...experienced such sublime misery can stay away indefinitely, and last week Oldtimers Lauri and Mosconi chalked up again. It was a threeday, 1,000-point match, arranged to raise money for ailing Lauri's medical bills. A charitable New York poolroom lent a table, cut off the recorded music out of respect for the occasion, and crowded in 1,000 of the faithful. As Lauri, 69, made his runs, Mosconi wore a crushing expression of disdain. It upset Lauri's concentration so much that he committed an inexcusable scratch-missing the object ball entirely. "You play with this...
When Mosconi stepped to the table, he had the game to go with the gamesmanship. Playing four to six shots ahead, he carefully avoided dangerous combinations and bank shots. Those he left to Lauri-and a postgame exhibition in which he showed some fancy stuff, including a six-ball combination, one ball for each pocket. During the competition itself, he peppered the pockets with wonderfully simple-looking straight shots, so rapidly that he was literally trotting around the table. With runs of 79 and 80, Mosconi won by 148 balls...