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They needed a scuba-diving midget. Exactly why was a secret. "We wanted to keep that," says Director Steven Spielberg, "for the sapper...
...Operation. Only one such bank now exists in the U.S.: the 56-year-old Bank of North Dakota, which is a giant in its area (four times larger than any other bank in that state) but a midget nationally. The proposed New York State Bank would be a much bigger operation. It would get all of the $3 billion or so in state government deposits now scattered among commercial banks, making it immediately one of the 25 biggest banks in the country. It would be permitted to underwrite municipal bonds, invest in job-producing industries, manage trust portfolios, and solicit...
There are more costs; ice time may run up to $50 an hour, and insurance fees mount as players get older and stronger. Mrs. George Gubbins of Hamel, Minn., whose son Tom plays goalie in the local Midget division, also budgets for stitches. "I can't get over it," she says. "At one place it costs $13.95, and at another hospital it costs...
...show. Next to it stood a vaudevillian theatre mirror lined with a few dusty but brightly lit bulbs. Old pop cans, boxes, and performance notes decked the floor and walls, and a new bottle of "Syntax" hand lotion sat ready for use on one of the two midget benches opposite me. There was a sense here of routine nervousness waiting anxiously to boil up, like an indy-500 pitstop ready to eject...
...political evil hardly scratches the surface of life here, neither do Fellini's large doses of insanity. Uncle Teo climbs a tree and refuses to come down until ordered to do so by a midget nun who will have none of his nonsense. A peddler claims that one night a diminutive arab sheik checked into the grand hotel with his harem and invited him up for a tiring evening. Even the priests are allowed to join Fellini's beatific vision. Foolish as the churchmen are, Aurelio's termagant wife turns out to be the genuine image of sainthood...