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...collects race horses, names them after movie paraphernalia (CinemaScope, Projector I, Vista Vision II). At his Singapore mansion, he keeps rare orchids and tropical fish, plus four man-killing Alsatian hounds to discourage thieves. Lacking some of his brother's more exotic tastes, Run Run likes to mix business with pleasure, recently put up a twelve-story building in downtown Kowloon, with a nightclub on the first floor, offices on the third, living quarters for starlets on the eighth, and a luxury apartment for himself on the ninth...
...tuba, a trombone, a cluster of plastic bags hanging by a thin wire and dripping colored water into a washtub, a swing, a string of balloons, a pair of bridge tables littered with the debris of some nightmarish New Year's Eve-champagne bottle in bucket, movie projector, alarm clock, broom, toys. After looking about to see that the performers were in their places, Cage somberly raised his left arm. "Zero!" he cried...
...hills, in an area that has been the subject of 755 complaints from the Israelis since 1951. When a Syrian searchlight stabbed at the advancing armor, the Israeli unit commander coolly radioed his artillery base: "I would be greatly indebted to you if you would kindly switch off that projector which is disturbing my work." Israeli shells zeroed in, and the light snapped off. As Syrian artillery opened up, the Israeli infantry bumped into a machine-gun nest in the presumably unarmed village, wiped it out with a grenade attack. After that the Israelis placed two tons of dynamite under...
...Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. The 8-mm. 4½-lb. camera is equipped with microphone and takes a special Ansco film with a magnetic stripe to synchronize sound with picture. Sound can also be dubbed in on silent movies by adding a sound stripe and running both through projector. Price: $239.50 for camera, $7.50 for 100 ft. of film and $249.50 for projector...
...Beach, Calif, had arrived in Bien Hoa only two days before and was showing his new friends pictures of his three young sons. Two of the officers drifted off to play tennis; the other six men decided to watch a Jeanne Crain movie, The Tattered Dress, on their home projector in the grey stucco mess hall. While they were absorbed in the first reel, six Communist terrorists (who obviously had cased the place well) crept out of the darkness and surrounded the mess hall. Two positioned a French MAT submachine gun in the rear window, two pushed gun muzzles through...