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...were thrilling melodramas, gripping in their own right. In Dillinger, all we see are static moments in time without a sense of cause-and-effect. The bloody episodes are strung together with little continuity, merely reaffirming the adage that crime doesn't pay. Life is continually lost to no avail. The gangsters never even seem to have a chance to spend their money. How can we glorify Dillinger? He seems no more than a crook...
...column was six miles long. "We insist on going to Cairo," a spokesman said. "We have strict instructions from the People's Revolutionary Committee to stop only in Cairo." Egyptian officials attempted to stop the march-to no immediate avail. At the border, the Libyans destroyed benches and tables in the customs building, calling their vandalism "a symbolic action to remove the artificial boundaries between our two countries." They then bypassed a sizable roadblock at Mersa Matruh and ignored orders to halt...
Yorkin was also wily enough to avail himself of the services of Production Designer Polly Platt, whose work, here as elsewhere, shows the kind of visual invention that suggests she might consider giving up the buttressing of other people's movies so she could start doing...
With the meet out of Cornell's reach, head coach Don Gambril began juggling his lineup in an effort to provide the bored crowd with some close races, but to no avail. Dave Brumwell moved to the 200-yd. back and won easily, Mike Cook swam a good 500-yd. free but lost, while Phil Jonkheer and Dave Smith scored an easy 1-2 sweep in the 200-yd. breaststroke. English took another second in the 3-meter dive, and Harvard won easily in the free relay...
...unwieldy management structure has also hurt. Pirelli suffers from creaky accounting. Dunlop executives have been urging Pirelli men to provide more figures faster as a guide to cost cutting, but to little avail. Geddes is discussing with Dunlop's bankers possible changes in the union; the choices are few. The British could try to persuade Pirelli to pull its Italian operations out of the world-spanning combine; yet that would hardly appeal to Leopoldo Pirelli. Or Geddes and his executives could continue trying to help Pirelli, at the risk of having rising losses entirely submerge Dunlop profits...