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...embark upon an uncomfortable honeymoon train rides to visit their parents back East. The audience is served up a platter of cute little vignettes of the trip (most of which are featured in the previews). This fluff is washed down by the soundtrack's particularly insipid cocktail of tinkling piano chords that bob around like ice cubes in a wash of syrupy strings...
Tsypkin: There is really no reason for Andropov to embark on a policy of cutting defense spending. The risks inherent are considerable for him personally because he would undermine the successes in foreign policy that Brezhnev enjoyed. Those successes were based on the buildup of Soviet military might. At the same time he would undermine foreign policy, he would undermine his support in the military...Also, it would take a very long time to turn the Soviet economy around. Meanwhile, what would you do with the millions of people engaged in military production? Moreover, it is my impression that...
...John H. Glenn Jr. became the first American to orbit the earth--Hoffman graduated from Scars dale High School. At Amherst College, Hoffman followed his scientific bent, majoring in Astronomy, and graduating first in his class,summa cum laude. Then, without skipping a beat, Hoffman arrived at Harvard to embark on three years of gamma ray research. This work took him as far away as Argentina, where he experimented with a balloon-borne gamma-ray observatory that he designed and built...
...President, "I want to emphasize that there is no intention or expectation that U.S. armed forces will become involved in hostilities," except perhaps for what he called "isolated acts of violence." To the Marines involved in the mission, the President radioed a rousing message: "You are about to embark on a mission of great importance to our nation and the free world ... You are asked to be, once again, what Marines have been for more than 200 years: peacemakers...
Stavros' father Isaac, who was also to have made the trip to New York, died in Turkey as the clan was about to embark. This leaves the eldest son in the uneasy role of head of a reunited family that broods and sulks and squabbles even as it breathes the ennobling air of tenement America. His balky siblings gravely crimp this Broadway Joe's ambitions, sexual, social and financial. Has he not promised his father to keep the family together? Does he not search endlessly to find husbands for the dark-skinned sisters? Where, then, is his free...