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...head of the press section, Leonid Zamyatin, warned newsmen that "serious measures" would be taken against anyone who went to talk with the two women. Four American and three Swedish journalists, who had not been delivered the official warning but heard it secondhand from their colleagues, decided to go anyway. At the door, they found a phalanx of Soviet security men, who first took their pictures, then turned them away. Inside, the two women waited in their secondfloor apartment in vain...
Most of the film has an alarmingly derivative style, and much of it is secondhand. The screwball scene in which Benjamin breaks up the wedding is uncomfortably close to Morgan. The editing features tricky sound overlaps from one scene to another and quick jump cuts from faces to bodies and back again, yet never consistently settles on a style. There is even a disappointing touch of TV situation comedy. A domestic argument ends with the toast popping out of the toaster, a visit to the zoo features the inevitable cute chimp mugging in its cage...
...stargazer's son, Arnold Peter MØller, founded the firm, and it is named after him. A. P. MØller made the most of his small stake, and in 1904 he was able to buy a secondhand steamer. He parlayed that one vessel into what is now a multimilliondollar empire. A believer in running a tight ship, A. P. MØller was one of Denmark's richest men when he died in 1965 at the age of 88. He passed the helm of the company to his son, Maersk McKinney* MØller...
...later said, he believed "all that hooey about Hitler." Recalled during the Korean War with the rank of commander, he got his first glimpse of racist literature from a Navy couple in San Diego. At first he skimmed, then read deeply. Soon he had graduated to a secondhand edition of Mein Kampf. "I was hypnotized, transfixed," said Rockwell. "Within a year I was an all-out Nazi...
...loss to know what to do. Congressional leaders seem more concerned with punishment of the rioters than in identifying and treating the causes that have been festering for years. Our country has become so involved with foreign affairs that the domestic problems, more immediate and potentially destructive, are receiving secondhand attention...