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...daughter (Edith Scob), a lovely wisp of a heroine. All crumpled organdy and helplessness yet clearly indestructible, she is drugged, chloroformed, kidnaped, nearly impaled on a hatpin, and at one point must be pulled out of the river after a prolonged dunking that would have drowned a plainer girl. Most of her woes are devised by a supple archvillainess (Francine Bergé) who revels in evil for its own sake, keeps slipping out of her period gowns to dart away in tights, only to reappear moments later as an apache dancer or murderous...
Wind Design. To enlarge its market, Alfa-Romeo last month began producing a light Giulia 1300 TI (for Turismo Internazionale). Priced in Italy at $2,270, the four-passenger car is not quite the cheapest Alfa-Romeo. For several years, the company has had a plainer, less well-padded Giulia 1300 on the market at $2,080. The new 1300 TI model, with a more powerful engine and stylish interior, is calculated to appeal to customers who want comfort and speed at a moderate price...
...plainer words, the incredible fact was that the two leading members of Britain's team had been accused of systematically cheating. One was Terence Reese, 51, a saturnine, abrasive Oxford chap, inventor of an esoteric, seldom-used artificial bidding convention known as the "Little Major." He was also England's most brilliant writer on bridge (author of twelve books, columnist for the Observer and London's Evening News), and one of the two or three best players in the world. The other man was Boris Schapiro, 53, a gregarious ex-wholesale-butcher...
...sense, this made it all the plainer that no additional nuclear gimmicks were needed. But while the Paris delegates continued to discuss MLF and the British proposals for an Atlantic nuclear force (see Great Britain), still another little atomic plan was disclosed that made MLF seem positively brilliant by comparison. It was a West German army proposal to create a "nuclear mine belt" along the West German border fronting East Germany. The buried mines would presumably annihilate an invader without forcing him into a nuclear counterstrike be cause they would not explode on his own but only on West German...
Caveman Drawing. What a cartoonist draws is inevitably colored by what he feels, and the feelings of many a cartoonist are even plainer to detect than those of their like-minded colleagues at typewriters in the newsroom. The Washington Post's Herblock draws Goldwater with a snarling lip, but says: "I think he's so bad all you have to do is to picture him as he is." Paul Conrad of the Los Angeles Times also claims, "I don't put in any more than I see." What he sees is a jutting jaw and a vacant...