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From such examples certain axioms emerge: 1) there is no single world opinion, but many different ones, conditioned by blocs, regions, self-interest and shibboleths; 2) all sides use world opinion to bolster their own preconceived ideas; 3) while some memories linger longer than others, world opinion subsides quickly in the face of accomplished fact, and it does not argue indefinitely with success; 4) the free world, because it is free, is more sensitive to adverse opinion than the Communists...
Nureyev will be afforded better opportunities to display his virtuosity in La Bayadere and Swan Lake, though to bolster box-office sales the Royal Ballet refuses to announce which nights he will perform. The crush for tickets has been so great that every performance was virtually sold out before the company arrived. Scalpers are having a field day, and box-office lines along the tour route stretch from Baltimore to Seattle...
...fancy fleet of Mercedes cars or the fashionable houses built under the old regime of Madame Sirima Bandaranaike, whose Freedom Party was ousted from power last month. The cars will be sold for "the public good" and the houses rented to others. Asking for foreign credits to bolster the economy, the new Prime Minister reiterated his intention to compensate U.S. and British oil companies whose facilities were nationalized three years ago. This should lead to prompt resumption...
Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff has proposed creation of a $100 million federal emergency fund to save the nation's failing commuter railroads, the weakest link in the U.S. chain of rails. To bolster the bankrupt New Haven line, whose trustees are seeking to cancel service covering all of its 26,000 commuters, Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell wants to set up a four-state authority to provide subsidies. Last week New York's Senator Jacob Javits and Congressman Ogden Reid proposed that New York, Connecticut and the Federal Government share in underwriting...
...bears his cross under the stern eye of Roman Centurion John Wayne. Veronica is Carroll Baker, who mops his brow, and-in a labored salute to brotherhood-he gets a helping hand from Simon of Cyrene (Sidney Poitier). Such coy vignettes add star power but not stature. They merely bolster the evidence that Western man's greatest story has yet to be greatly told on film...