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...deed was too large for Machiavellian neatness. In a matter of hours, slaughter became general. The populace killed more than the soldiers; shop owners got rid of commercial rivals; children slaughtered children. For five days, as a popular song of the time was to put it, "Men's bodies, women's bodies, were hurled in the terrible fury down into the river, to carry the news as far as Rouen with never a boat.'' From a window in the Louvre, King Charles avidly took target practice at bodies floating past in the Seine...
University lawyers, after much careful study of Longfellow's deed of gift and tentative plans for the library, have decided that the building cannot legally be built on the Soldiers Field site...
...President's desires have, however, been snagged by Henry Wads-worth Longfellow himself. The Soldiers Field site was given to the University by Longfellow under a deed which limits its use strictly to "meadows or College buildings" and specifies that any building constructed must not provide an obstruction to the view from Longfellow House...
...hard not to admire Communist Spy Robert Soblen: for almost three months, by hook, crook and desperate deed, he had mocked the laws and made monkeys out of the lawmen of three anti-Communist nations. Last week he spectacularly did it again...
...President coldly starts to strangle a small boy who has recognized him. "Hundreds will be shot if I do not escape," he explains. "What is one life against so many?" Bewildered in the mazes of moral choice that inescapably invest a man who tries to do a good deed in a naughty world, the hero kills a comparatively innocent soldier in order to save the comparatively guilty President. As the film ends, he is wondering how he is going to live with his crime-a crime that turns out to have been unnecessary. Just across the border the President dies...