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Nonetheless, as soon as the communique was signed, Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira summoned newsmen to hear a crisp announcement. Japan, he said, considered its 1952 peace treaty with Chiang's government as having "ceased to be valid," and would sever relations forthwith. Angrily condemning Japan's "perfidious actions," the Nationalist government severed relations with Tokyo and threw a cordon of troops around the Japanese embassy in Taipei in order to protect it from possible mob violence...
...American lady vacationing in Italy seeks advice at the American consulate in Florence. She gets a crisp brush-off from a pompous young vice consul. "I pay your salary, young man," she protests, but in vain. That scene in Olivia de Havilland's 1962 movie, Light in the Piazza, often evokes a knowing chuckle from seasoned American travelers. U.S. consuls have a reputation-sometimes deserved, frequently not-of being coldly impervious to fellow citizens in distress. Now that the expanding but unreliable charter-flight business is leaving a growing number of travelers high and dry (TIME, Sept...
There is one group of city dwellers who do not stay at home-the children. They move through the town like the mob in Lord of the Flies, carrying hate on their young-old faces like a bold banner. They wait for soldiers on street corners, flinging crisp insults: "Limey pig...soldier baastids...Up yours," and then bricks and rocks. "You can't shoot a kid, can you?" says a soldier wearing a flak jacket with the inscription CS IS A GAS, a sick pun. "But I know a couple I'd like to ship," meaning deport them...
...East. Chris and New Heavenly Blue display a crackling rock style deftly blending country, pop and jazz. Dave, now 51, plays with all the style and elegance of Van Cliburn summoning up memories of Meade Lux Lewis. But Jazz Great Gerry Mulligan's attacks on baritone sax are crisp and clean, and Brubeck and Mulligan bob and glide together like Astaire and Rogers doing the Big Apple. For a finale, Mulligan, the three Brubecks and nine assorted sidemen are likely to jam for wondrous minutes on something like Mulligan's Tune for an Unfinished Woman...
...Life photographer and creator of Shaft, far surpasses his father in filmmaking vigor in this, his first feature. It's all pretty crude, but he keeps things rolling, manages to cool off more obvious hot elements while keeping the cold liquid, and with crisp photography brings us closer into Harlem's high and low life than any of the bigger-budgeted current black flicks. (Not to mention that the effect he gets in a screw in a bubblebath is one of the more erotic things you'll soon...