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...have made a second-rate Hollywood puff merchant blush. Around the world, Soviet embassy officials peddled prepared picture layouts that showed the two cosmonauts with their families, and at play, wearing brief swimming trunks at a Russian beach resort. There were pictures of the two lolling on a grassy slope, riding a pedal boat, and even one of Nikolayev sniffing poppies. Handouts emphasized the human touch; the releases said that Popovich had christened his booster rocket Lastochka (The Swallow) and that Nikolayev had asked the ground station for the latest soccer scores. It was made known that Nikolayev...
...Handling this company is like skiing." mused Culligan. "If you are standing looking down a great slope, as an experienced skier, there is nothing to it. It offers fun, adventure, a chance to use your skills. But if you haven't done it before, the prospect is terrifying. This is the fourth time I've attempted this kind of thing. In many respects, the other slopes were much tougher." How are things on the hazardous Curtis slope six weeks after Culligan started at the top? Going great, he says. In spite of a $4,000,000 loss...
...WEBB, the hulking, slope-shouldered, long-striding 63-year-old who hates to be called Delbert, could not stand the life in one of his own Sun Cities for more than a few days-or a few hours. Though he has earned some unexpected gratitude for his retirement centers, he is better known for more rough-and-tumble activities as co-owner of the New York Yankees and as one of the largest single builders...
...suddenly spring to life in their enormous dungeon; at the peak of their fury only the tips of their improvised clubs are visible, flailing fiercely up and down in the prison gloom. Then the camera shifts to the hill outside. From a point at the base of the slope, we watch the gate burst open at the onslaught of hundreds of men who pour forth and seem to run right at us from above. The effect is awesome...
...Chuckles the Chipmunk (Gene Saks) to put the whammy on Murray's whimsy. The ensuing duel between man and machine may be the only known instance in which a squawk box lost a decision. In the final uproarious act Chuckles the Chipmunk does a prostrating parody of a slope-shouldered, splay-fingered humorless comic from TV's human menagerie...