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Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock; Paramount) at first seems to be a typical Hitchcock spine tingler, whose moral is that heaven may protect the working girl but not if she takes long lunch hours in hotel rooms. The film commences with Janet Leigh bouncing about in her bra while her lover (John Gavin) tries to persuade her to take an early dinner as well as a late lunch ("We could laze around here"). She says pettishly that she wants to get married. He explains that he has no money. That afternoon she steals $40,000 from her boss's real estate...
...principally with the support of a regime or a treaty or a disputed policy, if it were intended merely to bolster a particular program, or to achieve a limited objective, such a journey would have no real justification. But this trip . . . represents an important phase of a program whose paramount objective was, and is, to improve the climate of international understanding . . . We should not permit unpleasant incidents and sporadic turmoil, inspired by misled or hostile agents, to dim for us the concrete and gratifying results...
...Babies," and among the 23 bands at Frankfurt were the Riverboat Seven of Munich, the Diissel-dorf Feetwarmers. Berlin's Spree City Stompers. They belted out meticulous imitations of the legendary New Orleans bands of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care that they even mastered the ascending intonation of the famous cry. "Oh, play that thing." near the record's end. And a jazz singer...
...from the exploded summit), Stevenson had followed through with the harshest, most persistent criticism. "The effectiveness for leadership of the present Administration in Washington has been impaired if not destroyed," he told the Textile Workers convention in Chicago. "We must make it plain that peace and disarmament are the paramount goals of our foreign policy . . . Why was total disarmament proposed last fall by Khrushchev and not the President of the U.S.?" He also had soft words for the Kremlin's newest version of its old disarmament proposal, saying: "I'm far more interested in Khrushchev's positive...
...Race (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is something for the rubbernecks who think New York is a great place to visit but would hate to live there-and never get tired of saying so. In this picture Scenarist Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin, who also wrote the 1950 Broadway comedy that his script is borrowed from, feeds the out-of-town customers a mess of their own sour grapes, along with a generous helping of sex, sentiment, sadism and smartchat...