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...argument for rather than against our taking the initiative. Any other course would see us "jockeyed into a position of refusing diplomatic solutions," and, when we finally agreed to discussion, as we inevitably must, it would seem an American defeat. Diplomacy, Kissinger concluded, was the "necessary corollary to the build...
...Mark's will ring at five o'clock sharp to signify that at five, the young scientists rejoice. But Brecht has the bell ring at 5:03 to simultaneously shatter their illusions and to show us how even super-men can be late. Thus Brecht toys with the tension build-up to make Galileo as much an anti-hero...
Dale Higer, a third-year law student and president of the Law School Young Dems, said it would be "a folly to support a rally on Vietnam with YAF." His group has drafted resolutions urging the Administration to act on its policy of seeking negotiations and economic build-up in Vietnam, supporting the last March on Washington, and the use of the United Nations in negotiations...
Towards the end of Soft Skin, Pierre must make an extremely essential phone call. Just at that point a silly looking blond captures the phone booth and Pierre waits impatiently while she completes her call. Director Francois Truffaut has chosen a device so obviously contrived that your entire build-up of tension gets stopped in its tracks...
Officials in New York, Vermont and Illinois, however, foresaw no immediate need for drafting undergraduates. "If the present build-up continues" Col. Francis Woodworth of Illinois said, "we'll have to find more manpower somewhere, and the boards have already started tightening up on deferment. But we don't look for any wholesale reclassification...