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When Konrad Adenauer places the traditional wreath at the Arc de Triomphe, the occasion rises above ceremonial cliche because the one thing known about France's Unknown Soldier is that he died fighting Germany. When, after jointly reviewing French and German troops, Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle attend Mass...
Certainly it is true that size brings dangers, but it is also true that size also can bring benefits." Budget. "Next, let us turn to the problem of our fiscal policy. Here the myths are legion . . . The myth persists that federal deficits create inflation and budget surpluses prevent it. Yet...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN, 38, of Highland Park, N.J., started his fine-arts career painting semi-abstract versions of Remington's cowboys and Indians, and later began to conceal comic-strip cartoon characters inside abstract-expressionist paintings. "This led me to wonder what it would be like if I made a...
To call for negotiations these days has become a cliche. yet a neutral, unified Vietnam, the best solution to everyone's problems, can be achieved only through bargaining. The United States, the South Vietnamese guerillas, and the North Vietnamese regime would have to make concessions. A cease-fire might entail...
On paper, All Fall Down has plenty going for it: an all-star cast, an able producer (John Houseman), a talented young director (John Frankenheimer), a screenplay adapted by a famous playwright (William Inge) from a notable novel by James Leo Herlihy. On acetate, these virtues seem reversed. The story...