Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even Mediobanca professes to know how to dispose of the presidential surplus. They can scarcely be sent into private industry; there are already 41,336 corporate presidents holding sway there. They certainly cannot join the armed forces. Italy presently has 541 generals to command an army of 267,570 men. (The U.S., by contrast, has 508 generals for an army more than three times as large.) As for the Italian navy, it has 1.23 admirals for every vessel in the fleet...
...would never tolerate such bilidity on the part of a film-maker. His examination of The Clown's Evening is, however, sufficiently perceptive on all counts to make this weakness merely an organizational problem. Attaching defailed comment to extensive paraphrase. Simon gives a clear picture of Bergman's command, particularly of the nightmarish flashback done with heightened contrast and masterful manipulation of sound. Drawing somewhat on earlier analyses by British critics Peter Cowie and Robin Wood, he integrates his observations, obtaining a more complete picture of The Clown's Evening than has been seen before...
North Vietnamese forces nearly doubled their attacks yesterday across South Vietnam in a high point of activity before a cease-fire, the Saigon command announced Wednesday...
...make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam to 200,000 men or even fewer. The military command in Vietnam may be able to substitute even heavier air strikes for the costly ground operations that have sent so many yound men back to the United States in wooder boxes. At home, non-Vietnam military spending is already being pared down in what could develop into a new effort...
High-ranking South Vietnamese officials said late yesterday that Saigon forces have captured a document from the North Vietnamese high command informing North Vietnamese and NLF troops that initialling of a cease-fire agreement in Paris is expected at 9 p.m. Saigon time Wednesday, 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time...