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THAT MAN FROM RIO. French Director Philippe de Broca's wacky parody of Hollywood adventure movies propels Jean-Paul Belmondo through a series of wonderfully absurd dangers, smack into the arms of a drugged damsel in distress...
...platform amendment failed to point out that he was using phony documentation. Not everyone knows that the New York Times was founded in 1851; therefore his "1765" Times "editorial" denouncing Patrick Henry as an "extremist" was a figment of Dominick's own dubious imagination. Such essentially deceitful tactics smack of McCarthy. What a frightful forecast of Goldwater campaign methods...
...Egyptian economy did not even produce pins. The situation has improved; Egypt's industrial production has increased 42.6% in the past three years. Last week the improvement was highlighted by the opening of the first industrial fair in Egypt's history. On an island in the Nile, smack in the middle of Cairo, 800 Egyptian firms spread their wares over a 120-acre site behind an entrance framed by a huge arabesque arch...
...Sudden death is hardly the word. Suicide is a better term: out of 19 playoffs in his career, Palmer has won twelve. But Tony is a brinkman too; it makes the bubbly taste all the better. On the first hole, a 398-yard par-four, he watched Palmer smack his drive over a creek all the way to the base of the elevated green. Briefly, Lema fingered the "safe" club-a No. 4 iron. Then he reached for a driver too. "I might as well go out in style," he sighed...
MOBIL'S game sends 36 people at once on a mock-up cross-country race to see who is the best driver. The participant soon finds himself swooping around curves, skidding past a train, then whammo! smack into the truck ahead. The scores? Twenty-three is tops, but one fellow, who can't even drive a hard bargain, rated 19.8 just by sitting there too mixed-up to move...