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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fade Out-Fade In gives walk-on-and-off bits of business to actors who play characters recognizable as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple and Bojangles Robinson, the Busby Berkeley chorines, Boris Karloff, Tarzan, Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers, Garbo, Mae West, and Louella Parsons. Meanwhile, the main show goes down for the long, long count of boredom...
...industrialists and bankers who stepped in to refinance the company, last week picked the first man outside the Olivetti family ever to head it. He is Bruno Visentini, 54, the vice president of Italy's huge, state-owned industrial holding company, I.R.I. (TIME, March 27). Visentini's main task is to strengthen the position of Olivetti's U.S. subsidiary, Underwood Corp., which has not kept up with its U.S. competitors. In addition, Olivetti (1963 sales: $360 million) is troubled by import restrictions in its sizable Latin American market. Visentini, a lawyer well-connected with Italy...
...Associated Press and the New York Herald Tribune as customers for its Electronic Vote Analysis, and CBS has signed up the New York Times and the Washington Post for its Vote Profile Analysis. CBS has trucked its computers on from Oregon to California and hopes to have the main answer (Rockefeller or Goldwater?) 18 minutes after the polls close. NBC will shoot its data to computers in New Jersey and hopes to have an analysis back on the rebound within just 30 seconds...
That Man from Rio. Sssh. Out of a shadow a shadow glides, a sinister shape that stands up like a man but treads as softly as a jaguar. Stealthily the figure slips past the guard as he closes the main gate of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris; silently the figure vanishes along an aisle. Some minutes later the museum guard hears the crash of shattering glass, and away he runs to find out who is stealing what. Some minutes after that the police stand pondering a curious coincidence. The object stolen from the museum...
Democratic in its savagery, the film takes equal delight in nailing down its hero. Aping his betters, he finally, ironically, proves himself inferior-faster, bolder, by necessity more resourceful, but at bottom just a greedy, churlish Jimmy who yearns with might and main to be known as James...