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...trouble is, Male Companion's script might well have been adapted from the same book. Indolence as a theme leads easily to a certain aimlessness of execution, just as nothingness leads to naught. Director De Broca's spontaneity and Cassel's utter abandon with a throng of acquiescent beauties meet every challenge except the vital one of squeezing triumph out of a trifle...
What Rusk and other Administration officials could not foresee was that Lyndon Johnson's mighty efforts to end the capital's colonial status would come to naught. In one of the rare and least expected setbacks dealt him by the docile 89th Congress, the House last week killed Johnson's bill to give the District of Columbia the right to elect its own public officials and run its own affairs-a privilege last enjoyed in the federal city...
...gleaming white government hospital a mile up the river. But Lambarene, and the world, will always have the memory of a giant who tried in his singular way to love as Jesus loved, who oddly but honestly lived Goethe's song: The deed is everything, The glory naught...
...into the floor like it was a nail." Whereupon Long warmed up by hurling the shot 65 ft. 3 in. on his first try, then uncorked a toss of 66 ft. 7¼ in. - a full ¾ in. over his own listed world record. But it went for naught: Fresno officials had unaccountably neglected to put a steel ring around the shotput circle as international rules require...
...European paparazzi any time. The Latin American version inspires sheer terror. Flying into Rio for a "rest" with her Brazilian playboy friend, Brigitte Bardot, 29, was met by 150 howling, straining newsmen who chased her clear up to his apartment. When all efforts to break in came to naught, the pack besieged the joint for four days, running their own beauty contest among the babes on Copacabana Beach and checking the trunks of all departing cars to make sure she wasn't smuggled out. Even a writ of habeas corpus failed to lift the siege. At last she emerged...