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...Wayne greets two Japanese torpedoes with relish, warmed by the prospect of "a gut-bustin', mother-lovin' Navy war!" First as captain, then as Admiral "Rock" Torrey, whose ultimate mission is to oust the enemy from the fictional islands of Gavabutu and Levu-Vana, Wayne delivers a bedrock performance that provides anchorage for the shipshape supporting cast. Pick of the lot is Nurse Patricia Neal, who enlivens Wayne's hours ashore with straightforward passion. Wayne woos his long-estranged son (Brandon deWilde) away from the public-relations war mounted by a former Congressman (Patrick O'Neal...
Between them, the President, McNamara and the J.C.S. have chosen a battery of U.S. defense positions that may well affect the safety of the world for decades. McNamara says that revolutionary changes have been "driven into the bedrock" of the nation's mili tary base...
Stimulating Invective. The International Commission of Jurists was founded in 1952 when a group of lawyers met in West Berlin to probe East German violations of "the rule of law." With remarkable consensus, jurists from quite different countries agreed that the phrase means certain bedrock basics of justice, such as freedom of speech, press, worship, assembly and equal protection of the laws. Warning that "the state exists to serve man," the commission has needled authoritarian governments ever since...
...Goldwaterites points up another flaw that even young, energetic, Gubernatorial Republicans cannot ignore. In most states, Republicans are in the minority. A successful Republican candidate must win the votes of independents and Democrats, but unless he has a great many of these, he must count on the Republican bedrock...
...voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is a representative form of government, and our legislatures are those instruments of government elected directly by and directly representative of the people, the right to elect legislators in a free and unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system...