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Given the framework of international intrigue, Director J. Lee Thompson could have provided a brisk Bondist thriller. Instead, he has followed the B-line of movies of the '40s: a lone Amur-rican good guy against the Yellow Peril. For Imperial Japan, read People's Republic of China; for Alan Ladd, read Gregory Peck. The Chairman is a basket of bromides-except for one original line that ought to be anthologized. The chemist who developed the soil enricher murmurs to Hathaway: "We are none of us free. We are all chained to an enzyme." During the filming...
...Pleven, 68, Minister of Justice, also a Centrist, was twice Premier in the Fourth Republic and adds another pro-European voice to the Cabinet. A brisk and practical politician, Pleven served in De Gaulle's immediate postwar Cabinets, but went his own way after the general quit office in 1948. He was a chief author of the European Defense Community scheme and thus forever afterward barred from any De Gaulle Cabinet. His appointment now is designed to still criticism of the government's heavy-handed manipulation of the courts, though the assignment is liable to bring him into...
...precise objectives. He chides students for being in love with revolution-"perpetual change, perpetual spontaneity"-for its own sake, as if it were a marvelous formula for releasing all the virtues, including love. On the other hand, Spender complains, given half a chance student-reb els go all brisk, like "frustrated bureaucrats." (As he observes: "The first thing they set up is a committee...
Getting to know Wales also included a recent climb up Mount Snowdon (3,560 ft.), the highest Welsh peak. The Prince set a brisk pace. "He came up like a mountain goat," said his equerry. At the summit, his appearance touched off a mini-mob scene. As one girl aimed her camera, Charles gently informed her: "My dear, your [lens] cap is on." Spotting an American reporter, he asked: "You mean to say you've come all the way from the U.S. just to climb Snowdon?" Reporter: "It was just for you, sir," adding that the investiture had something...
After the wretched exhibition of ball playing of last Saturday the game which the nine put up yesterday was a surprise and relief to everyone. It showed that when forced to it Harvard can play good ball. For the most part the fielding was clean and brisk and the batting was sharp and timely. Highlands pitched a good cool game, allowing but three men bases on balls and keeping Princeton down to seven scattered hits. His base running in the fifth inning was one of the features of the game. Scannell was a little unsteady at times, muffing two third...