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...time had come to negotiate seriously for a peace settlement. But as Thieu reaches for greater power by grasping all available governmental levers, dissidence grows, the possibility of a military coup becomes more real, and Hanoi may be tempted to continue to stall. Saigon could even return to the chaotic days of revolving governments that followed the overthrow and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. And that would almost certainly shred any remnants of U.S. sympathy with the Viet Nam involvement...
...includes responsibility for the health, education and welfare of 203 million Americans risks dangerous overreaching or underachievement. When Boston's Elliot Richardson took over the Department of Health, Education and Welfare eleven months ago from Robert Finch, he faced the added burden of trying to master an often chaotic bureaucracy of 110,000 employees and administering more than 250 different programs budgeted at nearly $70 billion a year. HEW is second only to the Defense Department in cost and third to Defense and the Post Office in personnel. The frustrations of the job have exhausted Secretaries on the average...
...dyspepsia-provoking thought. Julia Child, giantess of French cooking, appearing with the Boston Pops Orchestra? Admittedly, she looks like a Wagnerian soprano, but could she sing? As it turned out, she didn't even try. The orchestra played and Julia beamed, mugged and moved her chaotic voice through the narrator's role in Tubby the Tuba. The Boston audience loved it and gluttonously demanded an encore. Reverting to her metier by wheeling out a cartful of bottles, the obliging Julia rapidly concocted a cocktail and served it to Conductor Arthur Fiedler precisely on time with the orchestra...
...intricacies of the formidable 687-page document, and who echoed Nixon's sentiments in an impassioned yet closely reasoned speech before his colleagues. "I must take it," Mills said, "that those of you who would vote to strike Title IV from the bill feel that the present chaotic mess is preferable to what we have in the bill." Mills' either-or proposition was enough to sway borderline Congressmen. By a vote of 234-187 the House voted down a motion to scratch Title IV from the omnibus bill, then approved it entirely, 288-132. The bill will...
Jodorowsky's is perhaps a prodigious, certainly a prodigal talent. What is most bothersome is not his chaotic cosmology but his coldness. He is so obsessed with allegorical meaning that El Topo misses any kind of full human resonance. It is instead a vivid if ultimately passionless passion play...