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THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. Reproductions of vintage aircraft soar blithely skyward bearing Terry-Thomas, Alberto Sordi and Gert Frobe to the high points of a fiaphappy comedy about a London-Paris air race in 1910-while vixenish Sarah Miles waits in the winners' circle to choose between Stuart Whitman and James...
...nostalgia of Ronald Searle's curlicued title designs. But beneath the thrills, spills and laughter of this farcical adventure lies a keen, almost wistful admiration for the great achievements of aviation's pioneers. Though the tone is mocking, the feeling is true. Those magnificent men, fluttering foolishly skyward, carry with them the fears and aspirations that humanity often perceives most clearly and with the greatest delight in the forlorn figure of a clown...
...pall over Amati's business. In reply, Amati propped up a pair of buffalo horns and insulting poems in his window; the display drew him an eight-month suspended sentence. His patience gone, Amati then got himself photographed in the newspapers with a two-finger corna defiantly aimed skyward. Tossed into jail, Amati was provisionally sprung last week pending an appeal of his original conviction-based on his claim that the buffalo horns were legal because they were inside his property. Whatever his fate, the butcher's meaty argument has obviously touched millions of gesticulating Italians. In fact...
...ground, then flew backward and forward with equal ease. Both pilots then reached for the one cockpit control that would have been out of place in a conventional plane: the lever that controls the two powerful screwjacks that can turn the wings until they point skyward or roll them back into standard flight position (see cuts). Once their wings were flat and their propellers pointing forward, they flew past the 600 press-military-airline observers at 250 m.p.h...
...King sees four plateaus within a skyward spiral of interracial progress. Down at the bottom is slavery, initiated in 1619 with the first shipment of African captives to the New World. Next comes segregation, a phase begun with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863--"slavery obscured by the niceties of complexity." In the third stage, which includes the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of '64, segregation becomes illegal. That's where we are now. Legislation can't change the heart, but it can "restrain the heartless. It can't make a man love...