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...usual, this year's screenings-which concluded last week after a marathon 16 days-introduced a worthy film or two, surveyed what is currently interesting or chic on the Continent, and provided a temporary home for the outcasts. Best received were Truffaut's Day for Night (TIME, Oct. 15) and an American movie, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets. The home team, indeed, was well represented this year by Mean Streets, Terrence Malick's Badlands (both to be reviewed separately when they are generally released) and James Frawley's Kid Blue, a funny, anarchic western released...
...Soviet official washed down a slice of spiced duck with a slug of mao-tai at the 24th yearly National Day* celebration in the Chinese embassy in Moscow last week and proclaimed: "I am still optimistic." He was referring to the prospects of a break in the marathon dispute between the two Communist giants, but his hope must have been fed by the convivial atmosphere. In fact, signs of a Sino-Soviet thaw are about as scarce as palm trees in Peking or Moscow...
...Helsinki. As a poor youngster, Nurmi worked in a foundry and ran 50 miles a week to develop his stamina. With long, flowing strides, "the Flying Finn" streaked through his decade, setting 28 world marks and dominating every distance race from 1,500 meters to the 26-mile marathon. Disqualified from the 1932 Olympics for "professionalism," he returned bitterly to Finland and made a fortune in the construction business...
...York Mets knotted the World Series against the A's in Oakland yesterday on three unearned runs in the 12th inning to win the second game, 10-7, and to cap a marathon contest fraught with errors and marked by one significant close call...
More than 2000 students massed in Memorial Church for a three-and-a-half hour marathon, and only five hours after the bust, voted over-whelmingly to stage a three-day strike against the University. The striking students demanded that police not be brought onto the campus again, that all criminal charges against protestors be dropped and that the University punish the protesters with nothing stronger than probation...