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Reach-Out, as the program is called, is an attempt to do for juvenile crime what Alcoholics Anonymous does for heavy drinking. The inmates' advice lacks the moralistic admonitions of the parents, judges and probation officers ignored by the kids. It is, indeed, an implicit message of the consequences of crime, brought home by those who alone in society are capable of commanding the respect of others who may be headed in the same direction...
...stepped-up repression seems rather to be an attempt to further ensure that the country's voting white minority will hand Vorster an overwhelming victory in the general elections later this month, and to serve notice to the U.S. and other Western powers that the white minority is prepared to fight to the last to retain its social predominance and political power...
BACK IN THE EARLY '60s, singer Anthony Newley and lyricist Leslie Bricusse decided to attempt another revival of the Everyman theme in a musical comedy. Their show, Stop the World, I want To Get Off, follows a certain Littlechap through the various stages of his life, from infancy to old age. In the end, he is rewarded with the birth of a grandson to take his place in the cycle of life. And all this with frequent interruptions for relevant social commentary...
While the strikers will not attempt to physically block the entrances to the stadium area, Sirabella said they will hand out informational leaflets and request that spectators not cross the picket lines...
with alien life forms?but, of course, no one will believe his story. The rest of Close Encounters' plot follows Roy and several other UFO sighters, including a mysterious international scientist (Truffaut) and a neighborhood woman (Dillon), as they overturn their lives in a mad attempt to arrange a rendezvous with the extraterrestrial visitors. When an earthling makes actual contact with aliens, that is "a close encounter of the third kind." (The first kind is sighting; the second, physical evidence...