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...David Olgivy is not on a soapbox, nor will he probably ever be television reform's darling. He is, first and last, a successful businessman with an admittedly enormous material ambition. He refuses to advertise on billboards not only because they ruin the landscape but because they are not effective. He says he cannot conceive of anyone going into an industry not wanting to be president. And though one could easily say of him that he is a man of integrity, he is also one of practicality, professionalism, and the wary warmth of experience that becomes one who has been...
...with their luggage. Carrying a wad of traveler's checks courtesy of some big foundation or Government agency, today's academician is off to dispense advice to a foreign government, finish a book in the splendor of the English countryside, burrow in the site of an ancient ruin, or pursue his research to tropical Islands, glacial lakes, laboratory ships, remote capitals or perhaps even the Great Barrier Reef...
Since the U.S. was obviously planning no invasion, just what was behind Castro's scare-talk? Partly, it was his way of taking Cuban minds off the island's economy, which slides deeper into chaos and ruin every week-despite $1,000,000 a day in Soviet aid. So desperate are conditions that by last week, when the Cuban airlift completed its first six months, 25,000 Cubans had left the country and almost 1,000,000 more-fully one-seventh of the Cuban population-were on the waiting list. Invasion talk was also a good...
...another time. With a lusty feel for the broad, vulgar humor of the period, Lattuada adds a delectable scene at the public baths, where gentlemen voyeurs and unsuspecting ladies are suddenly desegregated by a collapsing wall. Making a new movie from an old play can easily bring both to ruin, but Director Lattuada, with the slow and graceful style of a man who appreciates the uses of leisure, deftly manages to preserve the original without entombing...
Nevertheless, it's hard to believe that anyone is going to ruin steady Richie Friedman's undefeated season. He'll meet Bob McCallum, the former number one freshman who defeated Adelsberg last season...