Great Race Film Review From A Wild Campy Comedy
A reviewer lauds The Great Race as a wildly campy 1960s Warner Brothers comedy starring Jack Lemmon Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. The cross era road race from New York to Paris features Lemmon and Curtis in opposing roles with Wood as a cigar smoking reporter. wild stunts, explosions and spoof grandeur provide many laughs despite occasional rough stretches.
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Jack Lemmon
al Curtis
Natalie Wood
Blake Edwards
Warner Brothers
Iowa Theater
Tony Curtis
Lemmon
New York
Paris
Curtis
Miss Wood
Suffragrette
Peter, Falk
Keenan Wynn
Our Man Flint Satire of Bond Opens at Paramount
The film Our Man Flint features James Coburn Lee J. Cobb and Gila Golan in a high spirited spoof of James Bond. Flint faces GALAXY a weather controlled villainy scheme with ZOWIE guiding him. His gadget laden cigarette lighter and jet chase frame a brisk action comedy with Coburn delivering a stylish performance.
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James Coburn
Lee J. Cobb
Gila Golan
Twentieth Century-Fox
Paramount Theater
Flint
Britain
James Bond
Zowie
France
Galaxy
Colorful comedy with Ed wards and skilled cast
A lively film features Arthur O Connell and Vivian Vance as the editor and his suffragette wife with sharp sideplay by the two veterans. The color movie includes Henry Mancini music and Blake Edwards as producer director with a breezy screenplay by Arthur Ross.
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Arthur O’connell
Vivian Vance
Henry Manceni
Blake Edwards
Arthur Ross
Spy chief and a star cross love in 1961 film
The spy bureau chief sets the scene as Gila Golan plays the alluring enemy who falls for Flint. Edward Mulhare co stars as Flint's arch rival in this period drama with intrigue and romance.
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Gila Golan
Flint
Edward Mulhare
Rex Harrison
Midwest governors form atomic resources authority
Thirteen Midwest states created a Midwest Atomic Resources Authority to promote atomic energy plants in the region. Gov Otto Kerner of Illinois proposed the interstate compact and said state approvals would be needed. The authority would study interstate transport of fission material and multi state utility use.
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UPI
Midwest
Midwest Atomic Resources Authority
Midwest Governors
Illinois
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Ohio
Michigan
South Dakota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Minnesota
Kansas
Indiana
Missouri
Iowa
Otto Kerner
Kerner
Southern Interstate Nuclear Board
Southern Governors’ Conference
Eight Children Die Playing with Shells in South Korea
Eight school children aged 8 to 13 were killed and five seriously injured when two unexploded shells detonated on a river bank near their school in Yungju, 90 miles southeast of Seoul. Police said the children picked up the shells while returning home from school.
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Seoul
Yungju
Parole Hearing Sought by Embezzler of 2.1 Million
Burnice Geiger, once a Sheldon Iowa bank cashier, seeks parole after embezzling 2 126 850 10 dollars over 30 years. She faces a Feb 28 interview at the federal prison for women in West Virginia with potential release later this year if the parole board approves.
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Alderson
W. Va
Burnice Geiger
Iowa
Gladys V. Bowman
Federal Prison For Women
West Virginia
Mrs. Geiger
Miss Bowman
Posthumous Medal For Oelwein Gi
Army Pfc. David Michael 19 of Oelwein will receive the bronze star and purple heart posthumously Sunday. The Waterloo Reserve Center will host the ceremony for his parents Mr and Mrs Theodore Michael. Lt Col Evan Hultman will present the medals. Michael earned the bronze star for repelling enemy attacks in South Vietnam.
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UPI
Army
David Michael
Vietnam
Michael
Theodore Michael
Oelwein
Waterloo Reserve Center
Evan Hultman
South Vietnam
Mississippi Ice Jam Now Seven Miles Long
Davenport Iowa AP reports a seven mile ice jam on the Mississippi River threatens Davenport and Rock Island with major flooding. About 150 residents homeless as the river neared flood stage. Army engineers prepared 250000 sandbags and levees guarded the Davenport sewage plant. Officials said breaking the jam risks damaging homes. demolition experts were being sought from Chicago.
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Nowa-Illinois
Mississippi
Rock Island
Mil
Scott County
Red Cross
U.S
John Schmidhauser
Iowa
Washington
5Th Army
Chicago
Army Corps of Engineers
Army
U. S. Coast Guard
Lock No. 15
Theatre Time Schedule for Saturday Shows
Community theater Mary Mary at Paramount with Our Man Flint showings at 1 15, 3 15, 5 20, 7 25, 9 30 plus shorts at 3 05, 7 10, 9 15. The Great Race at Iowa 1 30, 4 15, 7, 9 50. Made in Paris at World 1 30, 3 90, 5 30, 7 30, 9 30 plus shorts 1 15, 3 15, 5 15, 7 15, 9 15. The Sound of Music at Times 2 and 8. Sands of the Kala Hari at Marion 1 45, 7, 9 20 plus shorts 1 30 6 45, 9.
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Community Theater
Mary, Mary
Paramount
Our
Marion
the Kalahari
Iowa Governor Questions Power to Order Explosives on Boundary Line River
Hughes raised a serious question about a state official's authority to command explosive use on a boundary river. The governor said the Iowa national guard lacks personnel and equipment for dynamite work and fears for guardsmen's safety if called up.
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Jam. Hughes
Boundary Line
Iowa National Guard
Iowa River Ice Jam Standoff Deferred Near Wapello
Officials near Wapello Iowa decided not to dynamite a two mile ice jam on the Iowa river citing fear the river could rise over the levee protecting local farms. Authorities expect the jam may break up on its own.
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Wappello
Iowa
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