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...bold plan to recover Fairfield General's principal asset-Vesco's 707-and he took it to the company's receivers. They in turn took the idea to New Jersey Superior Court Judge Irwin Kimmelman, who was overseeing efforts to liquidate Fairfield General. After a few discreet phone calls located the plane at Panama City's Tocumen International Airport, the judge authorized Fairfield General to advance Eisenhauer $17,500 on his claim. The pilot then headed for Panama with two colleagues...
...Gaullist vote down the middle. In a feeble, self-serving attempt to solidify the party, Premier Pierre Messmer last week announced that he was prepared to become a "unity" candidate if the other Gaullists would drop out. His candidacy lasted a mere eight hours. Although Giscard kept a discreet silence, Chaban-in a five-minute talk with Messmer-made clear that he was in the running to stay. Paris politicians later spread rumors that Messmer had threatened to release secret "dossiers" that would compromise Chaban...
...Discreet and studiously low-key, Herbert W. Kalmbach, 52, was the ideal lawyer to handle Richard Nixon's personal affairs. Like the President, he was a self-made and extraordinarily diligent man, both traits that Nixon admired in an aide. Above all else, Kalmbach was an unswerving and unquestioning loyalist...
Like the Bible, Confucius can be quoted to any purpose--perhaps that explains his resiliency. Last week, Chinese newspapers criticized The Master for showing signs of discreet disloyalty to his own rulers. If, as rumors indicate, Chou En-Lai is the target of this latest flurry of revolutionary fervor, this may be a way of announcing suspicions of faithlessness to Mao and China. Confucius will be a long time in dying for the sins of his followers...
Surrealism in this film is no gratuitous exercise, but a way of probing into the distoritions of mind wrought in a small boy's head by an uncontrollable world of misery. Bunuel has mellowed since he made this film: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a clever comedy he made a year and a half ago, uses the same surreal imagery, but in a less direct way. That film was popular, witty, adroit; Los Olvidados is driving, frightening--caustic and political. People who thought The Discreet Charm was amusing, but who couldn't quite see where Bunuel was going, should...