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...were unavailable for screening: Hollywood, as usual, refused to provide any of its major productions; and Jacques Tali's new comedy, Playtime, is on 70-mm. film, too large for Lincoln Center's projectors. Several works by major directors-notably Francois Truffaut's Stolen Kisses and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Oedipus-were judged unfit...
...Tony Zale, also ex-champ, and now 54, reserves his clinches for an occasional guest in the Manhattan pub where he works as "greeter." So when the two retired fighters met last week in a flack-fixed rematch, their panting efforts damaged nothing but the memories of the three Pier Six brawls-among the most savage in all boxing history-that they slugged out from 1946 to 1948. Graziano, the Dead End kid from Brooklyn, and Zale, the "Man of Steel" from Gary, Ind., wheezed through all of three rounds, swung such friendly punches that they scarcely ruffled a hair...
Looking ahead to even more difficult days, when jumbo jets carrying as many as 490 passengers start landing, Heathrow has announced a $25 million expansion plan. A T-shaped pier with telescopic ramps, capable of loading and unloading seven giants at a time, will be waiting for the Boeing 747 jets, which should be coming down the runways by December 1969 or early 1970. In addition, passengers are to be whisked to and fro on moving sidewalks that will connect boarding lounges with the airport's departure building and a new arrivals terminal, both situated approximately 300 yards away...
...hundreds of spectators on England's Isle of Wight last week, it seemed for a moment as if the entire pier were suddenly roaring off into the water. What they actually witnessed, however, was the beginning of the maiden run of the SR.N4, the world's largest hovercraft. Driven by four 19½-ft. propellers and supported on a cushion of air, the 130-ft.-long, 76-ft.-wide craft moved smoothly into waters whipped into a frenzy by near-gale winds. As the London Times described it, "the huge amphibian lifted her skirts with commendable decorum...
...direct helicopter service from atop the Pan Am building that hurdles the traffic on the way to the major airports; and it boasts a scattering of private copter pads, including one for the two-state Port Authority. Mayor John Lindsay uses the fire department's East River pier or the lawn of his official residence at Gracie Mansion. Even the meadows of Central Park have been pressed into service for emergency police-helicopter landings and Lyndon Johnson...