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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sail," a private but State Department-endorsed project in which sailing ships from some 21 nations would race across the Atlantic-and help publicize the Fair. To prove his case, the Senator produced a statement from the President. "I am looking forward eagerly to Operation Sail," it said. "The sight of so many ships gathered from the distant corners of the world should remind us that strong, disciplined and venturesome men still can find their way safely across uncertain and stormy seas." Jack would like to catch that sight, said Teddy, from the decks of Old Ironsides, anchored near...
...calm men were Lotus Designer Chapman and Driver Clark, who had been forced out of the Grand Prix of Monaco four days before with victory in sight (see Who Won). "Just like Monaco," said Clark. "You know, another moral victory-so near...
Pickpocket. French Director Robert Bresson is a Christian cinemascetic who in 29 years has made only seven movies. None of them is a masterpiece, but the best of them (Diary of a Country Priest, A Man Escaped) are luminous meditations on the life of man in the sight of God. In Pickpocket, a picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar, Bresson propounds a harrowing paradox: that man must sin in order to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
Glamorous Maria Callas, 39-long the favorite diva of Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis-stepped onstage at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, and her audience succumbed to love at first sight. Not so German critics, who ungallantly complained about the sound. "The passion has disappeared," said Die Welt's man on the aisle. "One gets the impression she has bidden farewell to art." Groaned another...
...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...