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...fast-approaching take-off day for the No. 1 man will be set after a number of further test flights. The latest shot of the capsule, carried aloft last week by an Atlas, was one of the Mercury program's brightest successes. The one-ton capsule got its roughest ride, soared 107 miles high, 1,425 miles downrange at top speed of 12,850 m.p.h. Examination of the battered capsule showed that a man could have stood the ride, so, as they tell each other, the astronauts have practically nothing to worry about...
Ironically, Francis of Assisi was roughest of all on the animals. While Curtiz eliminated the sermon to the birds as "too corny," Dillman was still required to bless a menagerie ranging from dogs to ducks. And in the closing minutes of the film-shot in Rome on golden sand previously hallowed by Ben-Hur's chariot tracks -the director decided to foreshadow Francis' death by depicting a raven on a desolate limb. Explained a Curtiz assistant: "We had three ravens in Assisi; one died of cold, and another flew the coop. Some body shut a car door...
Readying himself to take over one of the world's roughest jobs at one of history's toughest times, Jack Kennedy has plenty of ring-tailed problems. But before he is through, some of his biggest headaches may well come from an ardently pro-Kennedy Hollywood clique that is known variously as The Rat Pack or The Clan and peopled by such as Actor-Singer Frank Sinatra and Kennedy's own brother-in-law, British-born Peter ("Pee-tah") Lawford...
...Crimson hockey team leaves today on a two-game tour of upstate New York in what should be the most important weekend of its promising season. The sextet will meet two of the roughest teams in the East, Clarkson tonight, and St. Lawrence tomorrow night...
...respectable Rome has its striptease shows, the bawdiest are in Paris, Hamburg and Brussels. Among the popular places: Brussels' Chez Paul au Gaity; Paris' flashy Lido, and the broader diversions of the famed Crazy Horse. Hamburg's Reeperbahn nightclub strip is Germany's gaudiest and roughest...