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...traffic snarled to a halt as drivers hopped out of trucks and autos to join in street dances. Firecrackers exploded everywhere, and bells rang joyously. Jubilant factory workers and office employees, teachers and pupils poured into the center of town. From a huge poster high on the façade of the Central Information Hall, overlooking the confluence of the city's main thoroughfares, Ho Chi Minn, clad in the green fatigues of the Viet Nam People's Army, smiled benignly on the joyful crowds. The big letters on the poster read: YOU ARE ALWAYS MARCHING WITH...
...Godfather II was a lark, working on it was not. Strasberg applied himself to the role according to his own strictest principles of introspection. "In no way did I try to give a sense of the theatrical elements of the Mafia. So I tried to create a façade of not showing emotion, the sense of a man for whom all things were business." Strasberg also carried elements of Roth over into his own life-a basic article of Strasbergian faith-to flesh out the character...
...idyllic "island of stability and increasing prosperity in Latin America" you describe in your story on Mexico is indeed "no more." Perhaps it never was anything but a façade, a plutocrat's paradise based on a purely quantitative development for development's sake that postponed the demands for political, economic and social justice...
...have a quality which I guess I must have inherited from my Midwestern mother and father, which is that the tougher it gets, the cooler I get." Many who knew him well doubted that claim. They saw, or thought they saw, rage and consuming bitterness beneath the façade. But he did display amazing endurance and (with a few lapses) a remarkable public calm during more than a year of savage at tacks and adversity...
...Fissures. Meanwhile, new fissures were opened in the Administration's policy façade by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, who last week called for a return to voluntary wage-price restraints. Burns also urged restoration of a Cost of Living Council shorn of enforcement powers but able to bring the pressure of public opinion on corporations and unions seeking exorbitant increases. Such proposals run directly counter to the views of the President, who is opposed to even the mildest Government intervention to moderate wage-price boosts...