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...Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects him to announce his candidacy for governor...
...Pope Leo X finally excommunicated Luther in 1521, but the monk was now too big a fish to be thrown out of the pond. Notes Durant wryly: "Luther proclaimed that no man could be saved unless he renounced the rule of the papacy. The monk had excommunicated the pope...
...period sets of the 1920s in Paris and Pamplona, through which these disoriented drifters pass, are gaudily authentic, and indoors or out, the color camera work (directed by Leo Tover) catches the blues of Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris, the gold of Goya in Spain's sunny streets. Against these backgrounds, the essence of Sun is played out. The difficult role of Brett's ultimate conquest, young Bullfighter Pedro Romero, is played with fierce intensity by handsome newcomer Robert Evans. In the movie's arena sequence, Actor Evans conveys Hemingway's paradoxical feeling of affection for what...
...civil rights, was proclaiming: "I want a civil rights bill, not a campaign issue." That left it up to House Republicans-and, finding themselves virtually isolated in the effort for a strong bill, they began giving way despite Leader Martin's pleas to stand fast. Illinois' Leo Allen, the senior Republican on the House Rules Committee, pithily summed it all up: "The dam is breaking...
...Verne's descriptions: "titanic crabs pointed like cannon on their carriages"; "petrified bushes . . . scattered in grimacing zigzags." But no matter how exorbitant their "world," Verne's characters remain strictly human, sternly Victorian. When Verne died, it was not science that did him homage. It was Pope Leo XIII who applauded the purity and moral and spiritual value of the old S.F. master's 80-odd volumes...