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Almost by cultural osmosis King Kong's story has seeped into our collective consciousness. Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), movie director extraordinaire, goes to uncharted Skull Island to film a great beast deified by its natives. Before he departs, he meets destitute Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and convinces her to come and be his leading lady. He-man first mate Jack Driscoll (Bruce Cabot) doesn't like havin' a woman around at first, but he eventually kinds falls for her. So do the island natives, who think she'd make a swell offering to Kong. So does Kong, who carries...
...strongest reaction came from U.S.-born Dr. Edris Rice-Wray, who began Pill research in Puerto Rico in 1957 and has continued it intensively in Mexico City. Some 130,000 Mexican women are using the Pill, she insisted, and there is no evidence that it has caused cancer in women. "There's a lot of funny business behind all this," she said, referring to the recent Senate hearings on the Pill. "People are making a lot of charges without evidence. All this is only going to misinform women." The result? Dr. Rice-Wray pessimistically predicts that "many women...
Raquel Tejada Welch bears no resemblance to frail, delicate Fay Wray from any angle. Her attack on the male world is based on calculated carnality, on the woman as animal. The parallels between her and Vidal's carnivorous heroine are remarkable. Says Raquel, "I understand Myra thoroughly. I've always identified with her." Now she is bringing her sense of identification to the screen in the title role of 20th Century-Fox's forthcoming film version of Myra. Not since Cleopatra has a movie provoked so much gossip, speculation, expectation?and guerrilla war?even before going into production...
...quest to vanquish man; the locus of her attack was the wellspring of his contemporary myths, Hollywood. Clad principally in feminine indestructibility, she sought to blind men with her beauty, determinedly "unmanning them in the way that King Kong was reduced to a mere simian whimper by beauteous Fay Wray, whom I resemble left three-quarter profile...
...coitus with procreative intent at a mere 1%. Dr. S. Leon Israel of the University of Pennsylvania believes that this is ten times too high-that conception is specifically planned in no more than one incident of coitus out of a thousand. In a logical deduction, Dr. Edris Rice-Wray, who conducted the first pill tests in Puerto Rico in 1956, declares: "Ninety percent of all people are caused by accidents...