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...picture being made undersea. Cameramen, who stood and floated behind the cameramen who filmed Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea off Nassau and Jamaica, recorded an eye-catching documentary on the difficulties and hazards of making movies below the surface. At one point a huge, uninvited shark swam into the middle of a scene. Cameramen, directors and technicians, wearing light Aqua Lungs and flippers, could swim away, but actors weighted down by 225-lb. costumes could only gesticulate pathetically. The shark eventually got bored and swam away, but Disneymen manufactured a more dramatic finish to the shark...
Modest Prince Rainier was quick to disclaim any credit for the bag, which he said had been ready and waiting for him on a pier in Conakry: he had merely transported them, not captured them. But he had many another adventurous tale to tell-of spearfishing in the shark-infested waters off Dakar, of a near-drowning as he shot underwater pictures during a raging Atlantic storm, of a 1,200-mile trek through French Guinea and of the difficulties involved in helping his Negro valet purchase a wife in a native village (price: 200,000 francs...
...endless toasts, seemed not to notice. Premier Chou En-lai himself welcomed them at the Peking Pavilion of Purple Light, launching a round of banqueting, toast-drinking and speechmaking that lasted for 19 days. In Peking's sweltering heat, the Laborites downed innumerable toasts, consumed huge quantities of shark fins, lotus root and roasted duck skin, amid a continuous flutter of fans. At banquets, Chou linked arms with
...twisted into a bird form intriguingly suggested a pigeon in a jato takeoff. Pablo Picasso's heavy-handled vase embossed with a red-and-black cartoon face (Burlesco) was good fun. And Italy's Renato Guttuso. who designed a pitcher shaped like the face of a snarling, shark-toothed buffoon, happily wedded design and medium...
Upstaged. In New London, Conn., Walter Mamonis explained to doctors that after he had caught a shark in Long Island Sound, beached it, hung it on a hoist and struck a traditional fisherman's pose beside it, the shark bit his hand...