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...exciting as ever in action, and amusing enough playing an Oriental bumpkin in the wicked city. But Revenge appears to have been edited barehanded, possibly by a few karate chops. The actors, whose performances are as broad as the Manchurian border to begin with, are further hampered by a brutal job of dubbing: superimposed English, phrases spilling out of the sound track long after their lips have ceased to move...
...taken to help itself. If the U.S. decides that the grant would simply go down the drain as a mere palliative because the recipient country was doing little to improve its food distribution or start a population control program, no help would be sent. This may be a brutal policy, but it is perhaps the only kind that can have any long-range impact. A triage approach could also demand political concessions. The U.S. may be roundly denounced for "imperialist arrogance," but Washington may feel no obligation to help countries that consistently and strongly opposed it. As Earl Butz told...
AFTER A DECADE of brutal warfare and ever-increasing corruption and police repression under a dictatorial government, a faint ray of hope is finally arising for the people of South Vietnam. The protest movement that emerged openly in early September has grown to significant proportions and is threatening to topple Nguyen Van Thieu's regime...
Harvard's astounding destruction of the Pennsylvanians on Saturday was more than just a rout. For the Quakers, it was a brutal realization that they are not going to win the title they have dreamed of for many years. With Marty Vaughn and Adolph Bellizeare playing their final games in a Red and Blue uniform, that fact must be tough to swallow...
...maintenance all converge. But housing is even more vulnerable to federal efforts to fight inflation by restricting the supply of credit, because both home builders and buyers rely so heavily on borrowed money. And a continuing squeeze on credit by the Federal Reserve Board-though a slightly less brutal one than was in effect during the summer-remains central to the Administration's whole anti-inflation strategy. "In this fight against inflation, we end up being the fist," says a Chicago contractor, "and let me tell you, there are a lot of bruised knuckles around." Adds Atlanta Builder Charles...