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...immediate result of the Cornell discovery was to raise some serious second thoughts about the preservation of food by radiation, a practice that is gradually gaining acceptance. Relatively heavy doses of radiation have been used to kill microorganisms that cause decay in food; lighter doses prevent potatoes from sprouting and kill insects that infest flour and cereals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers the process safe enough to have cleared irradiated bacon, wheat and potatoes for public consumption, and the U.S. Army has already served some irradiated food in its mess halls. In Canada, the world's first...
...Kotcheff literally splices in a little Room for improvement-shots from the earlier film to establish nostalgia, most notably a tantalizing glimpse of Oscar Winner Simone Signoret retreating into the mist. A smoothly professional cast clips off the randy dialogue with an inexhaustible zest for every sign of moral decay in the life of a British provincial town. Yet a film as good as Room at the Top creates no valid curiosity about the further adventures of Joe Lampton, whose future was contained in his past. Lured to this steamy sequel, bombarded with reminders of its predecessor, audiences soon know...
...spectral dock on trial on a self-accusing charge-that his life has become an obscenity. The inner motion of this drama is the ritual of exorcism; Maitland wants to banish the voracious demons of his mind and conscience. But his witnesses are all mirror images of his decay, shadowy chroniclers of loss, rejection, betrayal and defeat. His upbraided, long-suffering clerks are walking legal briefs drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife is Maitland's petition in domestic bankruptcy. His mistress and his casual office couchmates do not attest Maitland...
...outraged at the prostitution of justice we have just witnessed in Lowndes County, Ala. [Oct. 8]. If there is any sure sign of decay in the fiber of this country, it is in allowing this legal fakery to go on. Alabama has become a modern Colosseum where good men, Negro and white, are fed to the animals...
...Bureau. Nowhere does the decay show more vividly than in Fidel Castro himself. The old Castro was a swinger, an extrovert who enjoyed yakking with Western newsmen or moving along the embassy cocktail circuit. He gunned around town in a souped-up Oldsmobile, showing up everywhere for spur-of-the-moment rallies, TV talkathons, hilarious games of beisbol in Havana's public parks, spearfishing at Varadero beach and interminable gabfests with the students at Havana University, where he would often hold court until 4 or 5 a.m. No more. Today's Fidel Castro has a dull, grey look...