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Those Fantastic Flying Fools is a spirited spoof in the Jules Vernacular. The background is Victorian, the project loony, the destination lunar, and the fun in the jocular vein of Mike Todd's memorable Around the World in 80 Days...
Secrecy. Disclosure of Spain's contract with null marked the end of 21 years of secret and almost byzantine negotiations. For as soon as Spanish geologists found the rich phosphate vein back in 1963, Generalissimo Franco's ministers forbade publication of any hint of the discovery. They had good reason for their reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure...
...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson taps a rich vein of comedy in four playlets that deal with sex on the stage, sex in middle age, as a parental concern, as a dimming memory. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard give a high polish to each nugget of humor...
...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson taps a rich vein of comedy-sex-in four playlets that deal with sex on the stage, in middle age, as a parental concern, as a dimming memory. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard give a high polish to each nugget of humor...
...Europe after his retirement as Chancellor. In the last month of his life, before he came down fatally with flu and bronchitis, Adenauer met with Chancellor Kiesinger and "urgently impressed on me," said Kiesinger, "this great concern of his life." He also wrote to De Gaulle in the same vein, well aware that the general was evincing reluctance to attend the summit meeting of Common Market leaders in Rome next month...