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...Ease. A native Californian, Pauline Kael arrived in New York three years ago and landed a reviewing job on McCall's. She did not stay very long because of her unladylike way of dismissing certain movies with a karate chop of criticism. "I thought I'd last six months," she says. "I lasted five." She moved on to the more congenial New Republic, then switched to The New Yorker last winter. She has brought out two books of collected criticism, Lost It at the Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Though she is now considered one of the country...
Where will the cuts come from? House committees last week sliced into foreign-aid funds and into the proposed budgets of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity. Congress thus showed an alarming eagerness to chop hardest at politically vulnerable programs despite their proven value-one in furthering U.S. policy abroad, the others in coping with urgent problems at home. Military spending not directly related to Viet Nam will likely be reduced as well, along with the space program and such public works as highway construction and waterway improvement. The Federal Aviation Agency...
...newest freight venture, the Santa Fe is proposing that cargo moving between Europe and Asia be unloaded from ships and carried across a U.S. "land bridge" consisting of Santa Fe and Penn Central tracks. Moving between New York City and the West Coast in five days, the trains would chop five to eleven days off the same trip made by ship via the Panama Canal, with obvious savings...
...differentiate them by their style. Kennedy's is tense, urgent, gritty. When the crowds are not attempting to steal his clothing, he will often take off his jacket and roll up his sleeves before talking. He shoots statistics that occasionally misinform but more often impress. His gestures jab and chop; sometimes his hands and lips betray in little movements the taut nerves within...
Four days spent in cooling the slums gave Stokes time to polish some ideas. Then he began to act. Farmers were killing pigs to dramatize their desire for higher prices; Stokes got them to donate the hogs to a project dubbed "Operation Pork Chop," which distributed 60 tons of free meat to Cleveland's poor. He launched town-hall meetings to touch people for volunteer work at city hall. He bewitched the audience of Captain Cleveland, a kiddie video show advocating good citizenship. His biggest decision was to call the first planning session for a major, long-term effort...