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...they stand on the threshold of success, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are in a state of public stoicism and private gloom. Their triumph has become their travail: having progressed from orbiting a 31.5-lb. Explorer satellite to the Apollo lunar landing program, they are like showmen who brought off a spectacularly successful act and are now having trouble deciding upon an acceptable encore...
...PRODUCERS. Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks's first film is an uneven joy ride with two canny Broadway showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop...
...PRODUCERS. Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks's first film is a wildly funny joy ride with two canny Broadway showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop...
...these slurs? Clay has not even had his day in court yet. The answer, at least as far as the sportswriters are concerned, is pretty clear. Men with flair and irreverence are not welcome anymore in sports. Look for the clean, humble guy. And beware of showmen like Bill Hartack, Wilt Chamberlain, Phil Rogers, and Bo Belinsky...
There's One Catch. While the show was unfalteringly festive, the moods of the European showmen were mixed. Most optimistic were Italian manufacturers, whose 1966 sales were up 17% over 1965; this January, the Italians topped the same month a year ago by 27%. Fiat, by far the largest Italian automaker, sold 1,178,000 in 1966, an impressive increase of 231,567 in two years. In 1967, Fiat expects to top that by 8%, and considering its deal with Russia last year (TIME, May 6), long-term licensing prospects look impressive. No less hopeful are state-owned Alfa...