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...Record Setter Mock" [April 24], you state that even Lloyd's of London refused to underwrite the trip. This is not the case. Through Lloyd's correspondents Leo B. Menner & Co., Inc., in Chicago, Lloyd's issued a $100,000 accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy covering Mrs. Mock during her record-breaking trip around the world...
Short on excitement, Trumpet shows a streak of rather whimsical originality in a sequence that has Chief War Eagle speaking Apache lingo while English subtitles flash on the screen. A less significant breakthrough is James Gregory's mock heroic performance as a gruff old Indian fighter who charges into battle spouting quotations from Latin. Since completion of the film, Troy and Suzanne have become Mr. and Mrs. in private life, gamely rallying from disaster for a Hollywood finish of their very own: omnia vincit amor...
...than anyone else. Thus the familiar, revered image is seen everywhere in Russia-framed in classrooms and pasted on peeling walls, idealized on canvas and frozen in marble. It is almost as ubiquitous in China, where it is often carried in processions, shaped of paper or flowers, surrounded by mock dragons and popping firecrackers...
After a 29-day, twelve-hour, four-minute, 55-second absence, Jerrie Mock, 38, flew into her home town of Columbus, Ohio-from the direction opposite the one she left in. In between, she had lost three pounds, flown the Atlantic and Pacific, covered 22,858.8 miles with 21 stops and become the first woman in history to fly solo around the world. Mrs. Mock had moxie. A pilot for only seven years, the petite blonde had logged just 750 solo hours before setting out. Her single-engine Cessna 180, Spirit of Columbus, was eleven years old, and even Lloyd...
...heavy schedule of travel and speeches, and his forty-seven years in Soviet politics make Franklin Roosevelt's harrowing public years seem lush. The reports of the Soviet leader's death may be true next time, perhaps before the world situation has changed substantially. While the sensations of the mock death scene enacted this week remain fresh, it may be worth considering what a world without Khrushchev would be like...