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Brandished Threats. Newsmen in the new State Department Auditorium sensed immediately that they were in for a torrid session. Glancing neither to left nor right, Kennedy marched to the stage, grimly be gan reading a statement that had been drafted by Goldberg, rewritten by Aide Ted Sorensen and changed in the last minutes by Kennedy himself. "In this serious hour in our nation's history." said Kennedy, "when we are confronted with grave crises in Berlin and Southeast Asia, when we are devoting our energies to economic recovery and stability, when we are asking reservists to leave their homes...
...second half, though, was a different story. Yale began to hit field goals at a torrid clip...
...second half started out at a torrid pace, but the five point Harvard advantage at halftime remained unchanged. Then Pete Kelley hit a lay-up and a long pivot jump shot, Denny Lynch pocketed two free throws, and Gene Augustine connected on two long jump shots to give the Crimson a 13 point lead with five minutes gone...
Pneumatic bliss gets out of hand. The girl goes off by herself for a swim, and he has to pump up a shark to scare her back into his arms. A bronze-god water skier comes along and skis her off to a romantic island for a torrid love scene...
Simplicity is the greatest virtue of the plot: a young fashion model, Doris (Harriett Andersson) and her boss, Suzanne Brown (Eva Dahlbeck), journey from Stockholm to Gothenberg, the former to get away from her cloying fiance and the latter to try to renew a once torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot chocolate with whipped cream; he quietly retches...