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...HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY. The full house includes Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and a couple of other aces in a mock-heroic poker comedy...
...safety. No other American has been rescued so close to North Viet Nam's main population center. Four and a half hours after takeoff, Adams-fondly nicknamed "Bulb" because of his prematurely receding hairline-was back aboard the Oriskany. Squadron 162 greeted him with pistols raised in mock salute-and two ounces of Napoleon brandy. To Minneapolis, Adams wired: "Would you believe it? I did it again...
...Lauren Bacall what she is going to do with the next 20 years and her mouth twists in a self-amused grimace: "Try to survive-for openers." The humor is symptomatic and the understatement characteristic. The generation that is in command has little taste for mock heroics and even less for overstatement. Its eyes are relatively clear, if at times somewhat troubled. Its productive record is vast and its potential still enormous. While at times it may seem hesitant and confused, it has pride in its competence, intelligence and tenacity, and staunch confidence in the future...
...country sought out the facts from major airline executives, aircraft manufacturers, financial specialists and Government officials. Their reports provided the fresh basic material for Writer Gurney Breckenfeld and Editor Champ Clark. Breckenfeld, a World War II Air Force information officer, managed to get to Los Angeles to inspect the mock-up of Lockheed's supersonic transport a week before the strike started. A devoted air traveler, Breckenfeld tempers his enthusiasm with only one qualification. "Some airlines," he says, "serve better wines than others...
...premise is finally revealed: without telling Andrews, physicist Newman plans to stage a mock defection to East Berlin to pry a formula from the brain of a Communist physicist, a formula necessary for the completion of Newman's own missile project. It becomes apparent that Hitchcock will use the nightmare world of East Berlin to test the lovers. Like many of his recent films, Torn Curtain is essentially a romantic character study, a realization that adds to the excellence of the first half of the film...