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This is what French Novelist Michel Tournier has done. The beautifully translated result, though, is far more than a Cartesian blueprint fleshed into creaky fiction. Like Crusoe I, but more elaborately in Tournier's version, Crusoe II shakes off despondency by creating a makeshift England, complete with fertile fields, full storehouses, a church, a fortress and an elaborate code of law and punishment with which to govern himself...
BEHIND President Richard Nixon's decision to begin troop withdrawals, there is a concept for disengaging the U.S. from the war. It is more than a vision, but less than a blueprint. It is flexible, ready to be modified with the shift of events. What Nixon does next depends largely on the Communist response to his announcement last week at Midway. While there are perils m the choice he made, it may prove to be a significant step toward ending the longest war in American history
...world record in coups-nine attempts since 1949, eight of them successful. Author Edward Luttwak notes that while the number of the world's doctors, teachers and engineers is increasing only slowly, that of army officers is rising sharply. For the benefit of the latter, he offers a blueprint of the steps necessary for taking over the state. In the process, he shows himself to be a cross between Walter Mitty and Niccolo Machiavelli, a dreamer and a schemer combined...
...press conference, the President left the impression that the new ABM program would be severely cut back from Johnson's blueprint. He mentioned only two proposed installations, designed to protect Minuteman ICBM sites in Montana and North Dakota-compared with 17 Sentinel bases planned by Johnson primarily to defend major U.S. cities. As it turned out, the two installations will be built first, but later, Nixon's proposal calls for 14 ABM bases in all. The system's function has been shifted from the protection of cities to the defense of the nation's nuclear deterrent...
Subtle Variations. The plot is a simple blueprint from which Hubert Cornfield, the director, producer and coauthor, builds an intricate superstructure. A girl (Pamela Franklin) is kidnaped at Orly Airport by a man dressed as a chauffeur (Marlon Brando). The chauffeur and his three partners (Richard Boone, Rita Moreno, Jess Hahn) hold her captive at a deserted seaside cottage while they approach her wealthy father about the ransom. The mechanics of the operation and, more important, the slowly disintegrating relationships between the kidnapers are the essence of the film...