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Third, Johnson has made a speech launching a peace offensive. He understands, as do the Russians and Chinese, the advantages of talking peace while escalating the war. Fourth, Johnson is trying to coax the South Vietnamese government into enacting agrarian reforms. This is the best possible moment for such reforms, since the Vietcong has boosted land taxes in some of the areas it controls almost to the levels demanded by the old landlords. This was necessary to support the increasing number of Vietcong regular troops. The peasants in affected areas have retaliated by defecting and by giving the Southern army...
...demonstrated talent for creating the conditions under which the free enterprise system can function most efficiently. He appreciates the vital distinction between Government action which stimulates the economy and that which stifles it. In meshing the disparate parts of the highly complex system, he would rather coax than coerce. Johnson has earned the trust of both busi ness and labor. He may overestimate the seriousness of unemployment; it now totals about 3,670,000-5% of the labor force. But out of that total, only some 435,000 have been out of work for more than 26 weeks. Still, Johnson...
...book gets no lift from Mark Sandrich Jr.'s music-to-yawn-by, and Director-Choreographer Michael Kidd unleashes his dancers only once for some sword and gun play. No one could coax a poor performance out of Robert Preston, but his hard-sell charm, snap and gusto create the curious impression of a history-book minstrel man in whiteface. Still, he could save the show if there was one to save...
More from Less. Khrushchev learned his lesson from the huge U.S. fertilizer industry, which now produces 30 million tons of fertilizer a year-nearly twice as much as Russia-and is one of the principal reasons why U.S. farmers are able to coax the world's fattest crops from their land. U.S.-produced fertilizer-now almost completely chemical-is sprinkled on the earth by hand from bulky bags, sprayed on from lumbering field machines, dusted from low-flying planes, even pumped into irrigation streams. By pouring on five times as much fertilizer as they did 30 years ago, mechanized...
Buster Keaton, utterly wasted in one brief sequence, might have told Director Kramer a thing or two about the shrewd use of slapstick to coax belly laughs from an episode that has three comedians tearing down a garage with all the deadly, humorless efficiency of a professional demolition crew. Cutting from incident to incident, car to car, ground to air, the film dissipates its fun at every turn, and the only chase to build up steam is a Chase named Barrie, who dances a wicked deadpan twist. Mad World reaches its nadir with an abortive climax that puts Spencer Tracy...