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...Sac was shot in a 13th century fortress perched on a precipitous knap that rises out of Holy Island, a dot in the North Sea off the coast of Northumberland. There all alone lives a rather odd couple: a flabby old fool (Donald Pleasence) who dismally fails to satisfy the snippy little chippy (Françoise Dorléac) he has recently wed. She lusts for excitement, and suddenly she gets it. A mobster on the lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into the castle one fine day and institutes a nerve-shredding reign of terror: flashes his firearms, slashes the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Razor-Edged Slapstick | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...Rand brainpower into pure military research. The U.S. launched a successful intercontinental ballistic-missile program after Rand men argued that hard-to-deliver bombs would be less effective than small missile-mounted nuclear warheads. When another Rand study warned that existing intermediate Russian missiles could easily destroy U.S. SAC bases overseas, the Pentagon abandoned them at a saving of $1 billion a year. Currently, Rand experts are studying counterinsurgency techniques; its teams have served in Viet Nam for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Top Hand at Rand | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...Bridewell Prison Hospital. In the first confrontation between Miss Amurao and Speck in the latter's hospital room, she pointed a finger at him and exclaimed: "That is the man." Shortly before, Speck had suffered chest pains, which were diagnosed as pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart sac, and his arraignment was postponed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: 24 Years to Page One | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

After four years, two of them as a navigator in SAC B-52s, I'm ready to hang it up. I haven't enjoyed much of it, but then nobody guaranteed me that I would. I have seen England, Hawaii, Okinawa, Bermuda, Guam, South Dakota. I've pulled Alert away from my family an average of three days a week. I've climbed over, banged on, shined flashlights into, and learned to love "The Bomb." I've seen Viet Nam from the air 21 times, and I've had my teeth worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 15, 1966 | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...Strategic Air Command division commander. Lassiter obtained financing from a Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary, signed up a board of directors that includes former Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis E. Le-May and Actor Jimmy Stewart, a reserve one-star general. Lassiter's 41 pilots were largely recruited among SAC veterans and former pilots of the Special Air Mission squadron in Washington; three have flown the presidential jet. "In our present group of pilots," boasts Lassiter, "we have the capability of flying any jet now in production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Four Hours from Anywhere | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

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