Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love and the Frenchwoman (Auerbach; Kingsley International) is a plaster-of-Paris whale (2 hr. 23 min.) of a picture from the French Old Wave-artificial but amusing. In form, the film is a cinemanthology of seven short subjects, each written by a famous French novelist or scenarist, each directed by a different man, each played by different actors, and intended altogether to dramatize the seven ages of woman. In effect, it is the usual shallow but intelligent French discussion, toujours gai and sometimes icily ironic, of what makes the world go round...
Into service with American Airlines this week went the world's fastest commercial airliner-the Boeing 707-120B, a faster version of the 707. Called by American the Astrojet, the new plane cruises at 640 m.p.h., flies from New York to Los Angeles in 5 hr. 25 min., trimming 25 min. off the old schedule. The new plane will also benefit those living near airports: it takes off and climbs so quickly that it will pass over neighboring communities at higher altitudes, markedly reducing the noise. Since it does not need to mix water with fuel for added...
...does TIME divide 25 hr. 48 min...
...Scooting down Lake Placid's icy, one-mile Olympic run at disaster-begging speed, Italy's Eugenio Monti piloted his bobsled to its fifth straight world two-man title, flashed past the finish line so fast on his last effort (a world-record 1 min. 9.22 sec.) that the sled overshot the braking area, wrapped itself around a tree...
Starting for Harvard, Tony Woodfield decisioned his man in the 123-lb. class Georke Doub handily took an 8-2 decision at 133 to put the varsity ahead 6-0. At 137 it was Nick Estabrook all the way, as he pinned Charlie Carr, an experienced opponent, in 1 min., 2 sec., of the third period...