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...bright young men to make it on their talents, instead of on their class origins. More important, World War II decimated the age group now in its 50s, so more men in their 30s and 40s have been drawn into leadership positions. There has also been a gentle cultural drift toward more respect for youth. Says Nils Gustav Grotenfelt, 49-year-old chairman of the Finnish Paper Mills Association: "We are going back to the 17th and 18th centuries. Most of the world's great leaders then were under 40. We have decided that the greater experience...
...large have not hurt so much as elsewhere, but the adulterated river of aid has put a hitherto overlooked entity into light. An informal lobby, presided over by Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community affairs, has begun to feel the rest and strain of a hostile drift in Congress and to turn necessarily to a more visible role...
...wanted a restaurant back in 1967, but the idea was rejected," Baldwin says. "Kilbridge did the design for this by himself. He's put it in a place where it will add to the noise, and the smell will probably drift into the studio area...
...labor's rank and file, and he has skillfully exploited it. Nor does he want to implicate big labor-his big labor-in what he expects to be a disastrous Democratic defeat. Why spend our money, he has said, to "help a political party commit suicide?" Better to drift with the political tides and make the best deal possible with the sure winner. Says an industrial union leader: "He believes he can bring Nixon around, that he can do business with the guy in a way that will serve labor's best interests over the next four years...
Almost the only set for the movie is a replica of the Führerbunker, complete with German magazines of the period and other authentic memorabilia. Through it drift re-creations of the familiar faces of three decades ago: Braun, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels and Alfred Jodl. In his scenes, Guinness strives for a balance between evil and humanity. "Once you start playing a person, it becomes unbelievable if you have him snarling all the time," he says. "I try to indicate a certain sympathy-the sympathy I have for a childish murderer like Macbeth...