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...Racing against the clock, the workmen literally pave the torn-up street with the square logs-just in time to let the morning torrent of traffic flood through. Can Tokyo possibly finish the building job by October? There have been doubters. Workmen are still scrambling all over the swooping, tent-shaped roof of the vast Olympic swimming pool and the upward-spiraling conch-shell roof of the Olympic basketball court. A fleet of five truck-trailer, mobile public rest rooms is still under construction for the Olympic games area (nobody seemed to have included enough public toilets in the original...
...bride was serene until she reached the church vestibule, when she broke down and had a good cry. Margaretha then joined 150 guests at a reception under a domed, plastic tent. "Typical English weather," muttered Ambler, eyeing the falling rain. Then the newlyweds dashed for their car, which had been decorated with a sheaf of wheat, symbol of fertility. As they drove away, Ambler caught a handful of rice in the face, remarked, "It makes me feel like a wounded pheasant." After honeymooning in Sardinia, Mr. and Mrs. John Ambler will be at home at Wilton Crescent in London...
...affairs develop innocuously, the gaps in the story line are filled by some delightful European circus acts and other diversions. A 4,000-ton ship keels over at the pier in Barcelona, and one exciting scene has Hayworth, Cardinale and Wayne all dangling from the rigging of a burning tent. The only serious mishap to befall Circus World is Cinerama, which magnifies a meager tale beyond all reasonable proportions. To sit through the film is something like holding an elephant on your lap for two hours and 15 minutes. You can hardly measure what you have there, but it leaves...
Straw Hat The big news on the tent and barn circuit this year is the release for summer theaters of that alltime box-office bombshell, My Fair Lady, and more than 80 summer theaters are offering Lady to the straw-hat and sunback...
...punctured. He was in such bad shape that no time was wasted trying to stitch up a 6-in. gash in his right hand. He was given several transfusions, fluid and air were removed from his chest cavity to help his breathing, and he was put in an oxygen tent...