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Suddenly the blue-green Gulf Stream erupted with convulsive fury. Like a giant marlin in a cascade of brine, a grey, bottle-shaped monster leaped into the afternoon. For an instant it hung against the sky-silent, ominous, streaming foam. Then it came alive with unearthly racket. Its tail belched flame, and it climbed into its new element with incredible ease. Arcing high into the thin, cold reaches of space, the first ballistic missile ever to be fired from a submerged submarine swung surely toward the south and east. Polaris, named for the mariner's bright pole star, needed...
...grownups-they might cut off a fellow's allowance. Indeed, Director Wilder in this picture establishes himself as one of the cinema's most skillful creators of comedy, low, medium or high. There is a great bit of buffoonery in which the bachelor hero uses a tennis racket as a spaghetti strainer. There is a piece of business in which the heroine, when asked how many affairs she has had, admits to three but unconsciously lifts four fingers. And there is a telephone conversation between Lover Mac-Murray and Mistress MacLaine (she has tried to commit suicide...
...proper is proclaimed by the staff of Aesculapius over its main entrance. One-third or more of its 1,350 inmates are in for crimes involving violence-from robbery to rape and murder. Most of the rest are burglars, bad-check artists, or men caught up in the narcotics racket. Alcoholism is the commonest complicating factor, and a prison branch of A.A. offers help. By administrative fiat, but for no good psychiatric reason, all homosexuals rated as "effeminate" or "aggressive" are housed in a single cell block. These are among the least hopeful cases...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-The story, based on police case histories, of a small-time racketeer who tries to build nickels and dimes into big money in The Numbers Racket...
...Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa sees it, the most serious threat to his job security lies in the three-man board of monitors fastened on him by a U.S. district court in 1958 to oversee his promised cleanup of the racket-riddled International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Consequently, Hoffa has kept his loo-member legal staff busy harassing the monitors in court, and helping him find other ways around them outside the court...