Word: marathonic
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...records for popcorn sales? It's not a bird or a plane but, of all things, Batman. The 1939 comic-strip creation of Bob Kane, which Columbia Pictures filmed in 1943 as a 15-episode serial, has now been spliced, end to end, to produce a 248-minute marathon of fist fights, zombies and ravenous alligators. Last week it was packing the house at an off-campus theater near the University of Illinois, and Columbia plans similar orgies in 20 major cities...
Wallace calculates nonetheless that he needs the statehouse as a power base from which to launch a third-party presidential bid in 1968. After he lost a marathon legislative battle to amend the constitution in his favor last month, most people concluded that he would go after John Sparkman's U.S. Senate seat next year instead. This is still a possibility, though Wallace has let associates know that he prefers to "continue the fight from here...
...card duel between the two hot-handed pros generates all the expected tension, and Director Norman Jewison exploits it fully. The grim-to-garish background seems authentic. The jargon sounds right. And McQueen v. Robinson put on a bristling good show whenever they interrupt their marathon long enough for a few words of subtly guarded small talk-about health, luck, woman trouble, anything that might make an opponent's mind wander...
...Conducting symposia like the one ARFEP is now considering, less frantic than the marathon "teach-in" and aimed at producing practiced policy appraissals and proposals...
...Salisbury airport by a mob of 1,500 whites roaring "U.D.I. Now!" and "Good old Smithy!", Rhodesia's leader would say only that it was a "better than even bet" that Rhodesia would be independent before Christmas. Then, after calling in his Cabinet for a series of marathon sessions on U.D.I., he appeared on television. "I have impressed on my colleagues that this is the most important decision that I think they will ever have to make in their lifetime," he said. "I want them to talk and talk until they can talk no more, so that...