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...funeral procession cuts its way through the streets of a small Spanish village with a huge, elaborately decorated altar in the middle of the procession. Rosi's camera, plays upon the decorations of the altar and the placid smile on a statue of the Virgin Mary and then tilts downward to the miserable peasant boys who must carry the altar on their shoulders. Throughout the film, trappings constantly give way to sordid details in this...
TIME and its reporters were banned in Indonesia in 1961, and President Sukarno has never been secretive about his opinion of our coverage, which sharply delineated the country's downward slide under his capricious rule. The situation drastically changed last September when an attempted Communist takeover was put down by the army, and the generals began to maneuver Sukarno into the background...
...idea of harmony is socially authoritarian-it depends on the static society, in which authority flows downward from above. Status based on skill or achievement can only be disruptive in such a world. "What do you do?" is the American conversational icebreaker; "Who are you?" is what the Asian wants to know. The Indian caste system is only the most elaborate expression of this fact; caste and status are important everywhere in Asia...
...jawbone but leaving a space where the lower cut was made. Where nonalignment is too great to be corrected by an operation on the lower jaw alone, Dr. Obwegeser may move all or part of the upper jaw. With remarkable versatility, he can even move it upward or downward, sometimes removing small pieces of bone to achieve the desired repositioning (see diagram) and using the chips to space out the lower jaw. Bone from a receding chin may be removed and replaced at the front...
...surged back by 14.36 points for the best single day's gain in eleven months. Even now, as the Ford meeting was under way, stocks were still moving modestly upward. But hardly were the words out of Ford's mouth when the Dow-Jones went spiraling downward eight points, ended the day off 5.5 points and the week, in which there was reason to expect a real rally, up a mere...