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Agent 007 has come to pay his last respects to the shapely, black-veiled widow of a SPECTRE assassin. An oboe sighs mournfully. He goes to press her hand and bam! da-bam! bam!-a volley of brass suddenly screams bloody murder. Agent 007 knocks the widow head over high heels with a bone-jarring right cross to the jaw. Aha! Just as he thought: it was not the widow but the assassin himself. Accompanied by thumping kettledrums, 007 methodically works the villain over with karate punches and a well-placed kick, then strangles him to death. A clatter...
Premiers do not thrive in Burundi, a small, landlocked central African nation of 2,750,000. In the three years since it gained independence from Belgium, two heads of government have died at the hands of assassins. Last week a third went down in a volley of bullets...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 28: the Wimbledon men's singles championship, with ease, trouncing fellow Aussie Fred Stolle, 26, for the second year in a row, with a straightforward serve-and-volley game that won in three quick sets, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. The slender Aussie had only a bit more trouble in the semifinals, polishing off the U.S.'s top-ranked Dennis Ralston, 22, in four sets...
...Moore and Rogers were cruising in their police car one night near the hamlet of Varnado, seven miles north of Bogalusa. An old pickup truck caught up with them from behind. Shotgun bursts smashed the deputies' rear window. Then the truck drew abreast of the car. A second volley ripped out. It caught Rogers in the shoulder and blew Moore's head open...
...romance is obviously doomed, despite group therapy and a volley of platitudes spouted by Eartha Kitt, Richard Conte and Edmond O'Brien, who with marginal success impersonate three real-life directors of Synanon House. Most of the time they appear to be running out-of-town auditions for Actors Studio. The movie's vacuous approach to a heartbreakingly grim subject is underscored by the presence in the film of bona fide former addicts, asked to do nothing whatever that might keep a misguided movie from going...