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...PAWNBROKER. A troubled old Jew measures his memories of Nazi terror against the realities of life in Spanish Harlem. Rod Steiger's performance in the title role adds authority to a grim theme...
...PAWNBROKER. A compelling performance by Rod Steiger gives focus to this grim drama about an old Jew caught between the horrors of Spanish Harlem and the Nazi horrors of yesteryear...
...boodle is to have the good luck to own property where some big enterprise wishes to build. See MODERN LIVING, Monuments to Stubbornness. Our cover story is a monument not to money but to a canny Scot who makes a lot of it. For a spin with the hottest rod on the road, see SPORT, Hero with a Hot Shoe...
Today, auto racing is the third biggest spectator sport in the U.S. (after basketball and horse racing). In 1964, according to the National Hot Rod Association, 284,043 Americans competed in 1,904 drag-racing events, and they were watched by another 3,312,-542 Americans. Illinois' Meadowdale Raceway, which attracted 50,000 paying customers in all of 1962, almost equaled that in one weekend last year; and California's Riverside Raceway, site of the Grand Prix for Sports Cars, reports that attendance this year is running 14% ahead of 1964 (200,500) and that...
...youngsters thirsty for thrills. The terror of Thurber's aunt, who tried vainly to conquer a car and wound up pleading, "Somebody take this goddamn thing away from me," gave way to something the psychologists called "locomotor philia": the teen-ager in his chromed and channeled-down hot-rod who leaned out at stop lights and sneered: "Wanna drag, mister...