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...Harvard baseball team descends again to the workaday world this weekend after its 27-9 soar into Brandies could-cuckoo land. But the Crimson will land with a thud unless the hitters can scrape up some runs against Columbia today and Army Saturday...
Having only that much to say, this free-flowing film short-unbroken by a single word of dialogue-says it with exceptional humor and freshness in precisely 18 minutes. Never overemphasizing, music combines with the insistent scrape of skate wheels in a cheery valedictory to the beardless lads (all played by nonprofessionals), presumably headed for new spills and thrills on the freeways of biological maturity. Producer Marshal Backlar, 30, and Writer-Director Noel Black, 28, thus establish themselves as novice moviemakers who seem happily unafraid of going their own way. They resolutely tackle a minor theme and polish...
Here, even the ironic title is a dissonant scrape of protest. Based on a woman novelist's diatribe against the double standard in Sweden at the time of World War I, Couples is a flawlessly performed showpiece directed by Mai Zetterling, a former Swedish film star who apparently intends to raise all kinds of hell on the other side of the camera. She begins by corralling three young women in a Stockholm maternity hospital and ends with a long, joyless look at a squalling baby. In the interim, she pours scorn over all the corrupt, vain, stupid and ineffectual...
...More Higgledy-Piggledy. Containers promise to scrape away some of the shipping industry's most persistent barnacles. Conventional freighters waste expensive time in port loading and unloading higgledy-piggledy, with cumbersome nets and slings. With specially built cranes, the containers can be moved into "cellulized" holds so swiftly that a vessel that might otherwise have to stay in port for, say, 72 hours, can now get out in twelve. This alone can cut the cost of transoceanic shipping by more than 25%. Beyond that, the containers are hard to pilfer-so much so that Matson Navigation Co. saves...
Building operations on the hill stopped while a team of 15 archaeologists including De Lumley's wife, Marie-Antoinette, moved in, first with a bull dozer, then with trowels, knives, surgical instruments and brushes to carefully scrape away the dirt. "In removing 32 ft. of soil," De Lumley says, "we stripped away 200,000 years of man's history...