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...hard-sell, Sennett-with-a-sound-track satire of iron curtains and color lines, of people's demockeracy, Coca-Colonization, peaceful noexistence, and the Deep Southern concept that all facilities are created separate but equal. What's more, Director Billy Wilder makes his attitude stick like Schlagobers slung in the spectator's kisser. He purposely neglects the high precision of hilarity that made Some Like It Hot a screwball classic and The Apartment a peerless comedy of officemanship. But in the rapid, brutal, whambam style of a man swatting flies with a pile driver, he has produced...
Reviving a project drawn up in 1889, Moch's plan calls for a 2O.5-mile-long bridge, supported by 164 huge pilings, built straight from Cap Gris-Nez to South Foreland. A single railway would run along either side with a five-lane superhighway in between. Slung on girders over each side would be two lanes for bicycles and service vehicles. With a clearance of 164 ft., the bridge would be high enough at all points to allow most ships to pass under. It would rise at several points to a 230-ft. clearance to accommodate U.S. supercarriers...
...West Pointer, was bent over a chess game. Comfortably dressed against the heat in shorts and sneakers, Nidever was about to move a pawn when the humid silence was broken by an outburst of rifle fire. "The Civil Guard's catching hell again," said Nidever as he slung an ammunition belt across a bare shoulder, grabbed a carbine and headed for the door...
...horsepower sports cars, Von Trips was just a few points away from winning a world championship in the sport he loved-Grand Prix auto racing, the swift and dangerous pastime that binds its practitioners to a peculiar, almost chivalric code. With goggles and helmets for armor, with throaty, low-slung cars for mounts, they scorch the race courses of Europe and the Americas in dedicated pursuit of their elusive Holy Grail-which is always one more victory. Death is always at hand. "In every race," said Von Trips, "we are close to the limit. We must be, if we want...
...girl in slacks is hardly worth a third look, but on the French Riviera last week, slacks were causing a sensation. Reason: the latest style, launched by Claire Vachon, the Riviera's high priestess of beachwear, is an outfit of very low-slung slacks combined with a bolero. The slacks are ankle-tight around the hips and finger-tight around the ankles. They start below the waistline, and thus have earned a special euphemism among English-speaking tourists: the BB look, not for Brigitte Bardot, but for belly button...