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...Appleton of Newton, Mass., for instance, was so thrilled about owning a 1933 Rolls-Royce coupe with custom coachwork by Freestone and Webb that right after the sale she couldn't remember how much she had bid ($5,400). John and Elizabeth Harriet took a chance on a tiller-steered 1907 Sears Runabout, bid in for $850, only afterward discovered that their antique had been found under a haystack ten miles from their home...
Tonio (Jean-Claude Brialy) agonizes deliciously over his unrequited love for blue-eyed Inge, the cool blonde of his dancing-school class. Dark-eyed Lisaveta (Nadja Tiller), an art student whom he visits on a poetry-writing trip to Italy, is far more responsive. But Lisaveta's bohemian ways repel him; when she invites him to a costume ball, he politely refuses and dozes on her sofa while he waits for her to come home...
...that what happened is performed by an awful lot of people who ought to know better: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, Trini Lopez E. G. Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni Anthony Quayle, Gilbert Roland, Omai Sharif, Barry Sullivan, Nadja Tiller Eli Wallach...
...chief forester for the Grand Duke of Baden, Karl von Drais had miles of woodland paths to patrol. To ease his task, he put together a weird contraption with two wheels, a saddle and a steering tiller, propelled himself by pushing off with his legs and coasting. When he rode it into town, the citizens of Karlsruhe hooted and chased him off the streets. One hundred and fifty years later, the plight of the bicyclist is still dire. "People in pickup trucks throw beer cans at us," says Washington, D.C., Cyclist Ray Matthews Jr. "Motorists keep trying to push...
...uses an Ian Fleming story to illustrate the U.N.'s efforts to control narcotics, and the cast is a U.N. in itself: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, E. G. Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Gilbert Roland, Omar Sharif, Nadja Tiller, Eli Wallach and Princess Grace Kelly...