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...rburgring, where half a million crowd the 174 crackling curves, France's narrow Rheims course, where a quarter-of-a-million fans congregate, and England's Silverstone and Goodwood courses, where the crowds reach 125,000. Italy has its closed course at Monza and the wide-open public road race of the Mille Miglia, the thousand-miler up and over the Apennines from Brescia to Rome and back, which is watched every July by a million cheering fans...
...Wood (Paramount), like Casanova, fails to fit a famous odd peg into the rectangular hole of the screen, but it is a much more entertaining try. The trouble with Danny Kaye as a movie comedian is that his humor is almost too graphic to photograph. Give him the wide-open spaces of a theater stage and like the prairie flower, he keeps growing wilder every hour. But confine him to the camera's cold, Technicolored eye and take away the living audience that gives him his reason for spreeing. and Kaye is not much better than his material - which...
...arsenals: "There can be no doubt that the employment of atomic and hydrogen weapons in a war . . . would mean the wholesale annihilation of civilians and the destruction of big cities ..." Here the aim was the usual-to excite the excitable world into banning atom-age weapons so that the wide-open U.S. would not be able to have any, while Iron-Curtained Russia could stockpile them at will...
...quartet, holder of the present Crimson indoor record with a 3:20.5, will meet Michigan and Indiana in a wide-open three-team race. Both of the varsity's opponents have recorded times...
With the recently instituted ('51) ruling that permits only 45 guests for each fraternity, the Carnival is less wide-open than in previous years, and there were more Dartmouth-Harvard. In fact, at the Dartmouth-Harvard hockey game on Saturday, there were fewer than 100. Crimson men. But in the hostile northland, during a tight game (final score was 6-4 for Harvard) men who did not, and soon would not, recognize each other on the streets of Cambridge became back-thumping buddies, trying gamely to out cheer the Green...