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...economical. A single-engine Piper Cherokee costs $8,500. To make a flight from, say, New York to London, a plane must have a complete high-frequency radio rig ($3,000 to buy, $300 a month to rent), an extra-large gas tank ($50) and survival gear, including life raft, jackets and flares ($35 a trip to rent). Then there are airport landing and service fees that range from a piddling $25 at Gander to a horrendous $300 at the air base at Sondre Strom, Greenland. There is insurance ($40 a month)-and most companies will not even issue...
...sent to link up with the 200 or 300 guerrillas holed up in the Venezuelan Andes. Early last week the squad slid by night over the side of a Cuban sailing bark off the Venezuelan coast near Machurucuto, 70 miles east of Caracas, and started toward shore in two rafts. In the surf, one raft capsized, drowning one of the Cubans. Finding a deserted raft the next day, Venezuelan fishermen alerted the army, which hunted down the invaders before they could escape into the mountains. In a sharp fire fight, the Cuban commander of the contingent was killed...
...proffered by the picture. Producer Charles Feldman, apparently fearful of taking a Royale drubbing on his investment, has tried to bolster the box-office potential by casting Deborah Kerr as a mocking-burred Scotswoman, Orson Welles as an enemy agent, Jean-Paul Belmondo as a Foreign Legionnaire and George Raft as himself...
David Niven and Orson Welles, Ursula Andress and Deborah Kerr, William Holden and George Raft, John Huston, Charles Boyer, Joana Pettet, Daliah Lauri, and in furtive appearances, Peter O'Toole and Jean Paul Belmondo, round out Casino Royale's company. Niven takes everything very very seriously, and has made of Sir James a proud, sensitive, prudish, retired spy in anything but the Ian Fleming tradition. He stutters too, at the start, but as if realizing it's not funny, Niven gives up this device a third of the way into the picture. Orson Welles, given one of the most thankless...
Bucolic Reactionary. For Ted Agnew, who beat George Mahoney, a Democratic, demagogic segregationist last November, the raft of new laws meant fulfillment of his most important campaign promises during his first three months in office-with Democratic majorities of better than 4 to 1 in both houses. Luckily for Agnew and Maryland, most of the Democrats were not Mahoney men; for the first time, as a result of the state's court-ordered reapportionment, they represented population patterns rather than geography. Thus the political center of gravity had shifted from Maryland's conservative rural minority to its metropolitan...