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DIED. Carlo Ponti, 94, producer of more than 100 movies, including the Academy Award--winning La Strada and 1965's Doctor Zhivago, and the husband of actress Sophia Loren; in Geneva. Though trained as a lawyer, the movieman clashed several times with the law in his native Italy, most famously when he tried to wed Loren, whom he had met when she was a teenage beauty contestant. The couple first attempted their marriage in 1957, but the bond was annulled because Ponti had previously been married, and divorce was not yet legal in Italy. The two successfully wed in Paris...
What actually happened was made horrifyingly clear in color films taken by Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas clothing manufacturer and an amateur movieman. The strip runs for about 20 seconds-an eternity of history. Kennedy was waving to a friendly crowd. Then came the first shot, and he clutched at his throat with both hands. Connally turned around, raised his right hand toward the President, then fell backward into his wife's lap as the second shot struck him. The third shot, all too literally, exploded in Kennedy's head. In less than an instant, Jackie was up, climbing...
...pictures that include criticism of the church. Such pictures have long been submitted as a matter of course for suggestions; today the industry is beginning to think twice about accepting such correction. Producers question the possibility of ever getting the council to spell out a clear opinion. Said one movieman: "The Protestants are not like the Catholics, or even the Jews, whom you can consult and get a fairly definite position. The Baptists disagree even among themselves, let alone with the Presbyterians...
...their own credos in a noisy manifesto called "Declaration." The manifesto revealed that the group was not a group at all, but split fair in two over the artist's ancient agonizer: whether to save the world by his exertions or by his example. Half, led by Osborne, Movieman Lindsay Anderson, 35, and Drama Critic Ken Tynan, 31, said artists must "take an interest in social environment-and that means politics." The rest, spearheaded by Existentialist Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, insisted that politics is for common people, that salvation must first be found by searching the soul...
...sizzling issue: U.S. aid ' to neutral nations. The committee headed by Steelman Benjamin F. Fairless had unanimously urged "a higher priority" in aid programs for "countries which have joined in the collective-security system" (TIME, March 11). The 13-member International Development Advisory Board, chaired by Movieman Eric Johnston, unanimously recommended increased U.S. aid for "countries wishing to remain free of all military alliances." Both reports are likely to be praised and damned aplenty during 1957's looming great debate on foreign...