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...Leopard. "If we want things to stay as they are, things have to change." The Prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster) abruptly stops shaving and turns to stare in irritation at his favorite nephew (Alain Delon). Can Tancredi seriously mean to suggest that he, Salina of Sicily, should lick the boots of the new bourgeoisie? The prince is a proud man, as proud as the Leopard ramping on his princely scutcheon. But he is not a fool; he knows as well as Tancredi that in the spring of 1860 bourgeois boots are on the march from the Alps to Africa. Garibaldi...
...week rounds up, as no publication has before, the current state of the biggest military construction program in peacetime U.S. history. To gather material for it, Chicago Correspondent William Shelton hopped about by air last week from Chicago to Los Angeles to Seattle to Great Falls to Denver to Salina and back to Chicago, visiting underground launching sites. The missiles that will be poised in these underground silos are an old story to Shelton. In his days as TIME correspondent in Miami he has seen 44 missile launchings, is the author of a book called Countdown: The Story of Cape...
...week's end, the contest judges-five veteran sailplaners grounded for the occasion-crowned the winner: Architect Andrew J. Smith, 37, a former Navy pilot from Tecumseh, Mich. Smith fetched up enough rising currents to lead the pack past the finish line at Salina, 81 miles away...
...isolated tornado or two is expected to occur from 4 to 7 o'clock p.m. in an area 60 miles north and south of Salina, Kans., running northeast to a line 40 miles north and 30 miles south of Kirksville...
...Lampe-dusa's own great-grandfather, Giulio, set at the time of Garibaldi's landing in Sicily (1860), and the plot of The Leopard is as bare as a sun-seared Sicilian hillside. The hero-known in the novel as Don Fabrizio, prince of the House of Salina-simply lives out the death of his class, the feudal landed gentry. The only action is inaction. But to mistake the story for the subject is to assume that a pearl is about grit. Amateur Novelist Lampedusa's real interest and achievement is to fashion an elegy...