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Peter Van Eyck, a big blond German who looks like the Sportspalast sculpture of Superman, plays the chief engineer of an isolated oil-pumping station somewhere in the northern Sahara: a tyrannical infant with an infantile solution to the problem of suffering-he gives pain to other people and keeps pleasure for himself...
Clark Kent could have slipped into Peru peaceably enough, but as Superman he'd have had to make like a bird. The Education Ministry banned him and 14 other comics because "their illogical and immoral actions contribute to unsettle children's imagination." Fortunately, Lima beansprouts love him almost as much as does Metropolis. Protests mushroomed, and the prestigious El Correo thundered, "Is this the first step toward censorship of the press?" It was, for sure. And two days later the ministry backstepped faster than a herd of crooks downed by a supersock...
...book where the rest of the characters are punched out of IBM cardboard, the dialogue is Early Superman and the sex Late Mary Worth ("Someone was patting her hand in this comforting protective way . . . She wanted the patting to go on and on"), Candidate Thatch looks almost real...
...Sicily, I can testify to the fact that he is a leader who brings to our Viet Nam campaign soldiering that inspires the men who serve with him, and a wisdom in war which in my opinion is unsurpassed. In World War II, his officers and men called him "Superman." It was a title that he earned by his deeds and capacity for deeds...
...guess who is Columbia's shortstop, leading hitter, best fielder, and, according to coach Norm Shepard, the best major league in-field prospect in the Eastern League? Yup, it's your favorite all-American boy, Archie Roberts. You can come see this veritable superman in action today against the Crimson's Andy Luther (3-0) starting...